re: #529 iossarian

Somewhat duplicative of 528, but I don’t think the concept of “consent” is as relevant as the concepts of “harm” or “distress” here. Again, there are a bunch of worse things that we do to animals without their “consent”.

I think you are mixing apples and oranges here.

I’m not going to condemn people for their choices of food, even though I don’t eat mammals myself and don’t approve of “sport” hunting. We do have a food chain in play and always have until such time as we’ve totally fucked over the planet and are eating Soylent Green.

OTOH, having sex with someone (like a minor) or a non-human “sex object” that can’t give consent is pretty out there. Anyone who thinks this is merely a “moral” argument is off their nut.