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Subject: On the morality of sex with animals


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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 07/ 1/03 10:58am
In reply to: Ben 's message, "Drawing the line based on something besides homophobia" on 06/30/03 4:47pm

The belief: gay sex is unnatural; it's just not something that's supposed to be. I know this point is irreducible, but I believe I may have found a similarity here with your views (I'm going to test that hypothesis here). Something I remembered when I was driving home last night...

>Sex with animals is obviously wrong, since
>animals have no way of giving consent.

Why should that matter? We imprison animals and grind them up for meat--all without their consent. Unless you want to have laws barring meat eating, this does not seem to be a very good reason.

If it's done without the animal's consent, one could perhaps foresee harm to the animals. Are you worried about nonmaleficience principle for animals? Let's ignore the meat eating thing for a moment. What if the animals are given a drug (to dull their senses or whatever) so that no mental or physical harm ever comes to them? Does sex with animals then become morally okay? Or is there something inherently wrong with it?

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Sex with animals have a certain traditionKnut Holt02/19/14 6:53pm


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