MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Sat Aug 24 14:47:04 CDT 2002


Bandwraith:
>
>From a strictly legalistic pov, I don't think
>it matters a great deal if the whip came down,
>although morally and argumentatively that point
>may be the most provocative. Either way M&D are
>in trouble with the law.


Legalistically, perhaps not, but if the whip comes down matters to the
person at the receiving end -- and hurts, in a different way, the person
doing the whipping, which I think Dixon is, however dimly, beginning to
understand.




>the whip, but that the application of
>that technology allows for a whole nother scale
>of oppression, as well as, increasing the
>physical separation between S&M.


Also recalls, for me, the bladed armor (from a place called Washington)
used to fight the Lambton Worm, the young man considers (if I remember
correctly here, no book in hand) embracing his father but abandons the
Biblical-inspired vow, and brings on nine generations of pain.  Damned if
you do, damned if you don't -- never should have agreed to promise to kill
in return for the ability to kill the Beast, imo.




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