Imagine that a friend in whom you are or could easily be sexually interested is involved in a serious accident. The friend has blood frothing at the mouth, their body is unnaturally twisted, and they clearly do not have long to live. The friend is single and has no dependants. You have the magic power to cure all their injuries, but the price is that the friend will be bound to you heart, mind, body, and soul. They will be utterly devoted to you, totally obedient, the perfect slave. For life. And you cannot cancel the enchantment. Do you save and bind them or not?
I’m very conflicted about this. On the one hand, this is a friend, someone about whom I care, and I’d be saving their life. It’s the immediately easy solution. On the other, after enslavement, they would no longer be the same person as the one I called my friend. And then there’s the whole slavery angle. But if I let them die, knowing I could have saved them, what will that knowledge do to me?
I’m not sure which of saving them or letting them die is the more courageous act.
And yes, this question is inspired by a porno story I read the other day.
Of course I’d rather enslave him. It’s not like I would be cruel to him if he were my slave. And it’s not as if I have a lot of things that need doing which are particularly difficult or cruel; I suspect any slave of mine would have a pretty damn comfortable life, actually. What kind of porno story would have something like this as a plot? I know that there are a lot of people who get off on slavery and domination but this seems like a weird way to bring it up in the story.
ETA - and anyway if he were really bound to me “heart, mind, body and soul” then it would mean that he would enjoy being my slave, so it would actually be more ethical to let him live doing something he enjoyed than to let him die.
Absolutely not. I’m not particularly afraid of death – it’s going to happen sooner or later – and there are things in the world which are much worse than it. Being permanently enslaved is one of them.
Hmmm…I’m not sure my husband would be too keen on the idea of me having my own slave, but I guess I could save them and then devote my time to finding a way to lift the curse of enslavement.
I guess it depends on how hot she is and she won’t stay that way forever in any case. If it were a male friend, I am not sure I would want him following me around all the time looking for things to “serve” me. I would have to come up with weird stuff like telling my slave to chop down a bunch of trees, build me a log cabin, and then tear it down a month later. I am not sure there is enough work to be done for a slave 24/7. Even Alice on the Brady Bunch never seemed all that busy and she had to support 8 people. My great-x grandfather got chopped to pieces by a slave on his plantation so my family is still a little leery about slave ownership.
To save the life of a friend? Yes.
Slavery can take many forms, and the evil is in how the master treats the slave, in this case.
I doubt I would be that onerous a taskmaster [taskmistress?] as slavery would probably take the form of letting him live his normal life, live in our home, and contribute a part of his earnings just like a regular roommate, and do the usual room matey chores around the house in the normal sense. I cant see turning into a Simon Legree just because I now have a magically bonded slave.
Though lots of massages would be nice =) The friend I am thinking of has a certificate in massage therapy =)
If this were a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode, I can’t help but think that the ‘enslavement’ would take an über-creepy turn with the friend calling me at all hours to ask what I needed and waiting on my doorstep, blank expression, while I slept. Then in the end I’d mutter something like ‘Go take a long walk off a short pier!’ (this being one of the old time, black & white episodes) and he’d really do it! Oops. Oh well. The end.
