On Moral Authorities

[robvalue]

If someone needs to have that explained to them....-that- rape is bad...they do not possess moral agency and no amount of discussion will ever yield understanding.  You're trying to explain algebra to a rock.

I agree, that is probably true. I expect it's generally more of a cultural thing, and that it's part of a much larger discussion which hopefully will slowly change over many generations.

(Of course I'm now talking about societies that differ from ours. For individuals in our society, convincing them is less important overall because our society already has it right.)