Slidey
But pieces of what?
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I could continue this for a while (e.g. post-puberty, non-penetrative, not feel violated because sex isn't inherently stupid or dangerous), but quite frankly I feel dirty for playing devil's advocate to paedophilia.
I'll leave it with: bestiality certainly isn't as clear cut as being a case of applying moral nihilism, and it's nowhere near as arbitrary as homosexuality vilification. Compared to the rather large societal change it would take to provide some sort of justification and protection for freedom of zoophilia, the potential gains seem very minimal even assuming a completely positive notion of zoophilia. From a utilitarian humanism point of view, it's not even clear if there would be any net gain at all; you'd be increasing an extreme secondary freedom which has ample replacements and thus, for which suppression causes no noticeable harm.
I'll leave it with: bestiality certainly isn't as clear cut as being a case of applying moral nihilism, and it's nowhere near as arbitrary as homosexuality vilification. Compared to the rather large societal change it would take to provide some sort of justification and protection for freedom of zoophilia, the potential gains seem very minimal even assuming a completely positive notion of zoophilia. From a utilitarian humanism point of view, it's not even clear if there would be any net gain at all; you'd be increasing an extreme secondary freedom which has ample replacements and thus, for which suppression causes no noticeable harm.
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