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“Appearances can sometimes be deceiving, but you are right. Submission must always be total to be fully experienced and although you may think that I am an easy girl, it would be futile for me to dare to pretend otherwise. Do you believe me when I say that it is of my own free will that I serve her?” The slave girl finally asked, as she naturally knelt at the feet of this mysterious woman under the dumbfounded eyes of the woman she was talking to.
Then, glancing furtively at her mistress, she seemed to wait for her agreement before continuing in a soft but incredibly determined voice.
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“Let me first illustrate my point of view.” Began the slave girl, in order to get all of our attention before going any further in her speech.
“Hedonism, which could sum up the goal of human existence as the pursuit of pleasures, fits perfectly with another of its natural aspirations, freedom. However, it is easy to notice that man has always had a tendency to accept servitude. Also, whether it is imposed or perhaps voluntary, it would be easy to think that by antagonism, this submission is therefore necessarily linked to pain or suffering.
“So, wouldn’t the source of man’s misfortune lie in his inability to be satisfied with material pleasures that would prove to be of little value because they are so short-lived? Unless pleasure, in addition to being natural, must also be a necessary need or risk being considered bad? What then of curiosity or passion which, while not rationally desired, would therefore have the capacity to make him internalize his own servitude by altering his will?
“A happy life would therefore suppose that, after a necessary awareness of his state, the subject works for his emancipation by freeing himself from the yoke of his servitude and sets out in search of new higher objectives such as knowledge, which would thus be an even greater pleasure, capable of satisfying him this time because devoid of any sensitivity?
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