My Big SL Peeve

Okay, I've kicked this around for awhile now. It's not going to stay in any longer.

I detest the slave - master scene in SL. I effing hate it. Do you sense my sincerity?

I think the tipping point was a bit of info a friend shared with me via some avi's profile that is a master. Sure you can say that it is rp and its a game but its total bullshit IMHO. This profile contained nothing but vindictive spew designed to degrade someone to the point of meaningless insignificance.

If SL slavery is just a game, well can I as a white avatar have A -A, African avis as my property? Not that I would but hey its just a game isn't it? Why not have any avatars other white avatars as my property? Reprehensible thought isn't it?

Well then, lets leave the racial malestrom aside, shall we? I'm a male avatar. I think I should have several female slave avis. After all, males are intrinsically superior. We have dominion over all we survey, correct? Even typing this drivel is an exercise in moronic thought .

The point is: people/avis are not property, chattel, collateral, bling....what have you. They are people. We had a pretty serious altercation in this country from 1861 - 1865 to remove that peculiar institution from this land. How people want to take a step back almost 200 years is beyond my comprehension.

Honestly, I don't get it. Don't get it at all.