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[โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

False equivalence aside.

So, genuine question.

Theoretically, if it was possible to obtain animal consent, you'd be cool with it ?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    We're gonna have to figure this one out when we encounter aliens.

    Personally, i'm open to the idea of human-alien relationships. I don't think most animals rise to the level of intelligence necessary to make a good romantic partner (and yes, that includes a good chunk of humans ๐Ÿ˜), but if there were a nonhuman animal I could play chess and discuss literature with, I guess I'd consider fucking it.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Yeah, see my other reply.

    Im down for some strange, but not at the expense of anyone (or anything) else.

    Honestly it's one of those "way more subjective than most people are willing to admit but we have made some lines anyway, because semi-arbitrary lines are how society functions".

    That's before you even get in to full subjectivism's like what even is intelligence and who gets to decide where the thresholds are.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    In this hypothetical scenario I'd still think it weird but not morally objectionable

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago*

    huh, that is not the answer i was expecting.

    I would assume it'd be one of those "yes they consent but we don't deem them as possessing the intellectual capacity to be making that kind of decision"

    Like it is with children.

    This of course assumes the human side is at an acceptable intellectual level of development.

    Or even the idea that the power dynamic in such an encounter would always skew significantly in the human direction, given that animals aren't usually (legally) considered the same as far as rights, agency and autonomy are concerned.

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