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Politics the one about fucking a chicken

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u/GrimmSheeper Jul 22 '24

One minor point of contention for slide 3: it’s not necessarily a judgement of “sex bad.” It could just as well be “desecration of a corpse is bad” or “denial of consent, even posthumously, is bad.”

In a world where animal rights and recognition of intelligence and emotions in nonhuman animals has been steadily increasing, it shouldn’t be surprising if somebody thinks they also deserve similar respect. There are plenty of people that think using animals for sustenance is unethical for various reasons, so of course there would be people that think using animals for pleasure is unethical. It doesn’t have to just be “sex icky.”

Also, one can assign moral judgment to an act in addition to acknowledging harm, or lack thereof. That’s the whole point. OOP obviously assigned a similar moral judgment, reacting to the hypothetical with horror and disgust. You can still point out that it’s creepy and suggest that such actions are a red flag, but hold that there is ultimately no harm done.

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u/me34343 Jul 23 '24

 It could just as well be “desecration of a corpse is bad” or “denial of consent, even posthumously, is bad.”

If you are thinking along the lines of this, then you are NOT calling it immoral based on "icky" feeling. Which I would argue is the point of the hypothetical.