(June 20, 2011 at 2:39 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Being as I don't care about legality, and I find the understanding of 'consent' the be anything more than agreement to be silly:
I find
Rwandrall Wrote:My view on the subject is more of a purely legal one:
"Consenting" is a right only Human Adults in their right mind have. Consent is not only about sex, it's about a number of other things, like contracts.
People with mental disabilities, children, animals, dead people, none of those is legally allowed to give consent, as such an adult male having sex with any of those would commit a rape. For dead people, it would be considered as desecrating the body (same law that goes against grave-robbing), which is also illegal.
Rather funny.
People with mental disabilities can still consent. As can children. As can animals (observe that humans are animals).
My dildo can't give consent... feel like taking action when I have sex with it?![]()
You legal people are all weird and stuff.
Edit note: It is entirely legal in the Silicoid Empire to fuck anyone that wants to be fucked by you. And why the hell wouldn't it be okay to have sex with the dead?
Try to remember that legality is intensely subjective and ultimately tells us nothing philosophically as to why a thing should or shouldn't be allowed
As for your dildo, it is an inanimate object, no emotions, no life, so it doesn't matter.
As for consent, it is more difficult with children en people with mental disabilities, because for a proper consent a person has to be able to forsee the concquences of their actions to a good degree. They also need to be capable to defend themselves against pressure. Young children and certain people with mental disabilities are not fully capable of doing so because their brain is not properly wired for this. They do not always understand the matter fully, don't know all the concequences and can not easily say no. Because of that, they need a degree of protection from the law.
When I was a Christian, I was annoyed with dogmatic condescending Christians. Now that I'm an atheist, I'm annoyed with dogmatic condescending atheists. Just goes to prove that people are the same, regardless of what they do or don't believe.