(December 1, 2017 at 2:04 am)Khemikal Wrote: Is there something about rape that makes it bad? Is that something a thing you could demonstrate? Is it just my opinion..or your opinion..that rape is bad? If we held a different opinion or changed our opinion...would it suddenly not be bad? Would rape, itself..be changed, because our opinion of it had changed?-ask yourself all of the same questions about blasphemy, btw, if you want a counterexample.
Rape is bad because the results of rape are bad. The satisfaction that a rapist may feel, having satisfied his interpersonally destructive urge to sexually control another, does not nullify the pain that his victim feels.
