Severus Snape
Proud Member
^The difference between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour is in who/what they involve. For example, one could make a compelling argument that pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, etc. are sexualities which some people are born with and do not choose, and by and large that holds true. However, in consummating that desire in the real world, a transgression against the will and well-being of another would have to occur, as children are not biologically or emotionally equipped to consent to intercourse, and animals are not biologically/emotionally wired for interspecies intercourse. These facts are what make both pedophilia and bestiality unacceptable in the eyes of society. They both require someone/something who/which cannot reasonably consent to sexual activity getting hurt and violated to satiate the desires of the other. Of course, dead bodies cannot consent to sexual activity either for obvious reasons, and the crime lies in the desecration of the memory of the individual and the causing of emotional distress to the family/friends of the violated deceased.
The same goes for someone who likes to kill or rape--those activities are transgressions against the will of another, since people who are targets of murderers/serial killers generally do not consent to being killed, and people who are raped by definition do not consent to intercourse with the rapist.
I think much the same goes for people who have sex with those who are severely mentally challenged--although some may be technically of age, their mental limitations are such that they are not able to consent to sexual activity.
Therefore, none of the above examples are logically comparable to two mentally competent consenting adults of the same gender agreeing to have a sexual relationship.
It is no more a crime to be attracted to and have a consenting relationship with another adult of the same gender than it is to be attracted to and have a consenting relationship with an adult of the opposite gender.
I fail to see what the big difference between the two is in abstract terms, and what makes one comparable to someone who likes to murder people [to you, at least, citing your example as a reference] and the other A-Okay.
The same goes for someone who likes to kill or rape--those activities are transgressions against the will of another, since people who are targets of murderers/serial killers generally do not consent to being killed, and people who are raped by definition do not consent to intercourse with the rapist.
I think much the same goes for people who have sex with those who are severely mentally challenged--although some may be technically of age, their mental limitations are such that they are not able to consent to sexual activity.
Therefore, none of the above examples are logically comparable to two mentally competent consenting adults of the same gender agreeing to have a sexual relationship.
It is no more a crime to be attracted to and have a consenting relationship with another adult of the same gender than it is to be attracted to and have a consenting relationship with an adult of the opposite gender.
I fail to see what the big difference between the two is in abstract terms, and what makes one comparable to someone who likes to murder people [to you, at least, citing your example as a reference] and the other A-Okay.
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