The keyword is informed consent, which requires full understanding of the situation. Children, animals, and impaired people can’t give informed consent.
Modern industrial famring utilizes forced insemination with a tool operated by a human.
A reasonable person could argue that it’s not sexual assault becuase the act was not for sextial gratification, but purely utilitarian in order to obtain a baby cow, disregarding the welfare of the cow.
In other words, whether an act is sexual assault or not depends on the intentions of the actor, regardless of the experience of the subject and physical nature of the act.
If you fill in “human” as your subject in the above formula, a reasonable person could conclude that the experience of the subject does, infact, matter.
I’m aware. I’m a vegan because I’m not down for animal rape. The bestiality laws are written with exceptions for people who are acting, not out of their own sexual interest, but out of financial interest.
I wanted to have a slightly different discussion, because this one’s depressing as shit though.
If that were true our laws around meat farming would be very different
Clever. I wish I’d gotten a serious discussion out of this, but that’s the community.
A serious discussion about the ethics of bestiality? If that’s the kind of place you’re looking for I think you might have to create it yourself.
I don’t think I have the moderating skills, lol.
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The keyword is informed consent, which requires full understanding of the situation. Children, animals, and impaired people can’t give informed consent.
But his comment is relevant the toppic.
Modern industrial famring utilizes forced insemination with a tool operated by a human.
A reasonable person could argue that it’s not sexual assault becuase the act was not for sextial gratification, but purely utilitarian in order to obtain a baby cow, disregarding the welfare of the cow.
In other words, whether an act is sexual assault or not depends on the intentions of the actor, regardless of the experience of the subject and physical nature of the act.
If you fill in “human” as your subject in the above formula, a reasonable person could conclude that the experience of the subject does, infact, matter.
You got it. This is why I went vegan for years.
I’m aware. I’m a vegan because I’m not down for animal rape. The bestiality laws are written with exceptions for people who are acting, not out of their own sexual interest, but out of financial interest.
I wanted to have a slightly different discussion, because this one’s depressing as shit though.
Now I’m trying to figure out what dirty joke I accidentally made