“Any free man may discipline an insolent or errant slave,” I said, “even one who is in the least bit displeasing, even one he might merely feel like disciplining. If she is killed, or injured, he need only pay compensation to her master, and that only if the master can be located within a specific amount of time and requests such compensation.” In virtue of such customs and statutes the perfect discipline under which Gorean slaves are kept is maintained and guaranteed even when they are not within the direct purview of their masters or their appointed agents. She turned white.
- PLAYERS OF GOR, Page 235
“You do not own me!” she said. “You are not my master!”
“The discipline of a slave,” I said, “may be attended to by any free person, otherwise she might do much what she wished, provided only her master did not learn of it.” The legal principle was clear, and had been upheld in several courts, in several cities, including Ar.
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“I saw girls drinking from the high bowls last month!” she said.
“That was last month,” I said.
“You cannot punish me!” she cried. “You are not my masters!“
“Any free person can punish an errant slave girl,” I said. “Surely you do not think that her behavior fails to be subject to supervision and correction as soon as she is out of her master’s sight?”
“Take me to my master!” she begged. “Let him punish me, if he wishes to do so!“
“We will attend to the matter,” I said.
“No!” she wept.
I looked at the others. “And you, too,” I suggested, “are errant slaves.”
“No, Master!” they wept. “No, Master!”
“You cannot seriously intend to punish me!” said Filomela. “I was a free woman!”
“That is where most slaves come from,” I said. I turned to the other slaves. “Were you not all once free women?” I asked.
“Yes, Master!” they said.
“But I was of high caste!” said Filomela.
“What was your caste?” I asked.
“The Builders!” she said.
“But you are not now of the Builders, or of any other caste, are you?” I asked.
“No,” she said.
“What are you?”
“A slave,” she said.
“Accordingly,” I said, “you may be punished as what you are, a slave.”
- MAGICIANS OF GOR, Page 225
