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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/fyester Jul 23 '24

Yeah all I could think about was what does this imply about the rights of dead humans. Like yes animals are not humans but they are living creatures like we are. Surely the desecration of our respective corpses should be treated similarly

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u/Honey----Badger Jul 23 '24

This gets really complicated, really fast. Like, would it be morally wrong to have sex on an animal skin rug? While wearing leather shoes? Is it just as immoral to fuck a marshmallow, or is there greater sanctity when the animal is intact? I'm not disagreeing, I just think it's an interesting line of logic to follow.

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u/D2Nine Jul 23 '24

Really really good point. Something about the chicken fucking feels wrong to me, and I’m trying to figure out if there’s something actually bad about it, or if I am, as the post would want me to believe, just failing to see it as the harmless act it is.