mean_liar wrote:This is, of course, why owning a pet at all makes you a kidnapper.
False equivalence is still false though. Having a pet would only make you a kidnapper if having a kid did. But since it is entirely possible to have a child belong to you
without being a kidnapper, it is equally and to the same extent possible to have a dog belong to you without being a dognapper.
sabs wrote:So what about the werewolves that are born as regular wolves, and grow up amongst regular wolves?
Why is it wrong for them to be dogfuckers? Shouldn't them banging humans be more squeeky?
What about humans born as regular children, and grow up amongst regular children? Why is it wrong for them to be childfuckers?
Because if you are a moral agent who has adult human intelligence, it is
wrong for you to have sex with an intelligent being who is not. Period. That's the only reason, but it is both necessary and sufficient to make child fucking wrong.
Kaelik wrote:Why is it morally wrong to have sex with a non intelligent thing?
It's not. It is wrong to have sex with an intelligent thing that is less intelligent than an adult human. That is the sum total of why you are not allowed to put your penis into the mouths of children while they are asleep.
Rather than hem and haw about how it's OK to
fuck a dog, go ahead and present some alternate ethical framework where it's not OK to slip your penis into the mouth of a sleeping child and it's somehow OK to fuck a dog. No special pleading, just moral framworks. Put up or shut up.
Tzor wrote:So, if you will allow me to nit pick on this for a moment.
No. I will not. Because that is a disgusting and trivial argument to have that has no right answers (though many wrong ones). The line at which someone becomes competent as an adult in the real world (as opposed to being treated as such in legal documents), is incredibly vague and hard to pin down.
But this discussion isn't
about narrow edge cases like "Is it OK to fuck a 14 year old girl if she's
really mature?" It's about an incredibly simple case: one is a fully competent adult human moral agent and the other has the sentience of Spuds MacKenzie. People who actually
want to have discussions where they make philosophical arguments for raising or lowering the age of consent are disturbed people. I genuinely feel uncomfortable even having that conversation.
-Username17