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Anticipatory service vs. reactive service
This occasional dispute within the ownership subculture refers to the question of whether slaves should wait for and obey their master's orders or whether the slave should anticipate the services their master desires and provide the service without first asking the master. Those who dislike anticipatory service cite it as an example of topping from the bottom and point out that no person can correctly anticipate every need or desire. They also suggest that anticipatory service can become irritating or harmful to the power exchange if the slave's judgement is routinely substituted for the master's orders.
Advocates of anticipatory service claim that the activity of continuously thinking about and attempting to provide service desireable to the owner has the effect of making the slave an evermore perfect instrument of the owner's will and bringing master and slave into a more intimate bond. Advocates of anticipatory service suggest that the necessity for masters to continuously voice their preferences (as is the case in purely reactive service relationships) reduces the relaxation that this lifestyle offers to masters.
In practice, no M/s relationship features purely anticipatory or reactive service. So the dispute is actually about how much of the slave's service should be anticipatory or reactive.See also
Service External Links
Wu Ch'i and Anticipatory Service : An article defending anticipatory service against criticism that it leads to the slave serving in ways the owner would not approve of.
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