Ok that title's gonna have the pitchforks out in a heartbeat. All I can do is just ask you to hear...uh...read me out. Is that even a thing? To read someone out- anyway.
I've been doing some reading lately on rape involving animals. No, not bestiality, though that's kind of in the same scope, here... Rape is a naturally occurring phenomenon in the animal kingdom, as well as in humanity, as we are all aware. One thing that has been noted is that it definitely occurs in chimps, monkeys, apes...our closest genetic relatives in the animal kingdom, basically, along with bottlenose dolphins and other animals. It also occurs in different species of insects, by the way. So it would seem that...yes, rape is natural.
The possible reasons for rape's prevalence are fairly obvious...though this does not excuse them amongst humans. Basically, it runs that, at least in the animal kingdom and from a biological standpoint, rape is committed in order to prevent genetic extinction; basically, biologically, if you can't get a mate by the usual methods, force is necessary to prevent genetic extinction. Now, this is CLEARLY not the case with humans; for example, I remember reading that a fairly famous porn star was arrested for rape recently. A porn star. The guy clearly was not biologically failing in a capacity to mate.
The problem with we humans is that we are not animals. I've heard lately from a few people whose names and identities I will release at the proper time so as to evoke the maximum amount of pain and scorn they truly deserve that rape is natural in humans and should not be punished so severely, because, after all, it happens in nature, just like homosexuality! Yes, a guy charged with rape is saying that his plight is the same as the plight of homosexuals. I wish I were making this up.
I reiterate, to get back on point; humans are not animals. Misanthropists the world over love to disagree with me on that until I get to this point where I start pointing out the clear differences between animals and humans in a moral context and then if they continue the argument it only shows how utterly fucked their moral compass is and I lose all respect for them after this point. Is it true that animals commit rape? Yes. There's been many accounts witnessed of it happening, with one forcibly mating with the other while the latter struggles to get free and the former utilizes aggressive techniques to keep them pinned...and never from dominant alpha males/females, either, but rather, the runts of the litter, the dregs of the pack, the biological washouts who never have a chance otherwise. Is it true that humans commit rape? Yes. But do we accept it? Consider it normal just because it happens with animals? No. Why?
well, taking away the obvious mental and emotional and physical trauma it entails, it's also a violation of our freedom of choice. We humans are unique in that we are capable of making informed choice, of disseminating information and applying it to varying situations. Animals...not so much. They are instinct, and even our primate relatives, so similar to us, are still not quite capable of making the same kind of informed choices. Simply put; rape is one of the two gravest violations of basic humanity, the second being murder, because both entail someone forcibly over-riding another's freedom of choice to serve one's own pleasures.
So. Rape. Is it natural to humans?
No. No it is not.
I've been doing some reading lately on rape involving animals. No, not bestiality, though that's kind of in the same scope, here... Rape is a naturally occurring phenomenon in the animal kingdom, as well as in humanity, as we are all aware. One thing that has been noted is that it definitely occurs in chimps, monkeys, apes...our closest genetic relatives in the animal kingdom, basically, along with bottlenose dolphins and other animals. It also occurs in different species of insects, by the way. So it would seem that...yes, rape is natural.
The possible reasons for rape's prevalence are fairly obvious...though this does not excuse them amongst humans. Basically, it runs that, at least in the animal kingdom and from a biological standpoint, rape is committed in order to prevent genetic extinction; basically, biologically, if you can't get a mate by the usual methods, force is necessary to prevent genetic extinction. Now, this is CLEARLY not the case with humans; for example, I remember reading that a fairly famous porn star was arrested for rape recently. A porn star. The guy clearly was not biologically failing in a capacity to mate.
The problem with we humans is that we are not animals. I've heard lately from a few people whose names and identities I will release at the proper time so as to evoke the maximum amount of pain and scorn they truly deserve that rape is natural in humans and should not be punished so severely, because, after all, it happens in nature, just like homosexuality! Yes, a guy charged with rape is saying that his plight is the same as the plight of homosexuals. I wish I were making this up.
I reiterate, to get back on point; humans are not animals. Misanthropists the world over love to disagree with me on that until I get to this point where I start pointing out the clear differences between animals and humans in a moral context and then if they continue the argument it only shows how utterly fucked their moral compass is and I lose all respect for them after this point. Is it true that animals commit rape? Yes. There's been many accounts witnessed of it happening, with one forcibly mating with the other while the latter struggles to get free and the former utilizes aggressive techniques to keep them pinned...and never from dominant alpha males/females, either, but rather, the runts of the litter, the dregs of the pack, the biological washouts who never have a chance otherwise. Is it true that humans commit rape? Yes. But do we accept it? Consider it normal just because it happens with animals? No. Why?
well, taking away the obvious mental and emotional and physical trauma it entails, it's also a violation of our freedom of choice. We humans are unique in that we are capable of making informed choice, of disseminating information and applying it to varying situations. Animals...not so much. They are instinct, and even our primate relatives, so similar to us, are still not quite capable of making the same kind of informed choices. Simply put; rape is one of the two gravest violations of basic humanity, the second being murder, because both entail someone forcibly over-riding another's freedom of choice to serve one's own pleasures.
So. Rape. Is it natural to humans?
No. No it is not.
