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MasterWilliam55 -> RE: Enabling vs Serving (6/17/2008 3:19:54 PM)
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To enable....to provide the tools, atmosphere, authorization; to make possible, to provide opportunity.
To serve....To render assistance..to be of service, to have definite use, to be usefull, to render obedience, to perform duties.
To enable is pro-active and can be negitive or positive. To serve is reactive and is only positive. It is only positive in the fact you are providing a service, by doing what the D/s relationship expects. The outcome or net result is irrelevant.
We probably shouldn't be looking at pro-active (enable) and reactive (service) moralistically or by twisting the meaning of the words.
The word enable has mainly positive connotations but some negative situations arise. By servicing your Dom 10 drinks, night after night, will "enable" him to become a drunk. To not serve those drinks, "enables" him to become healthy. To service your Dom those drinks, regardless of the outcome, is positive in that you have complied with your responsibility to obey and therefore serve.
Aside from the issues around semantics your question raises, a Dom enables his/her sub to serve and the sub in turn enables the Dominant to be just that, Dominant. It is supposed to be a positive experience for both and where service enables a dom to be destuctive or self-destructive, no positive experience can come out of that. Yes, the pure act of service is positive, in that you are doing what your nature suggests. In doing so though, all will be lost.
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