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>>81 the exact same argument can be happily applied in the same manner towards what you are proposing. you are convinced therfore you must be right and will refuse to ponder that there could be any thing different, otherwise you could be wrong, cant have that.
ergo you are right and they are wrong and all logic shall be lost.

>>75
Lol... Self-indulgence rules.  You can only be one person in this lifetime, so you might as well enjoy it.  Morality, except where it tells entity A not to injure entity B, is generally useless.

>>78
I think >>77's point was that slaughter/injury to an animal is considered more legally acceptable than having sex with it.  You won't get years in jail for physically abusing an animal, you will if you have sex with it under some localites.  The law allows many things to be done to animals that it says are wrong to be done on humans.  Law and morality don't always go hand in hand.

>>81
So, is a horny person seeking sexual contact from another person in some form of "hypnosis" and therefore unable to give true consent?  Take the words "horny"/"sexual contact" and insert any other word that represents an instinct telling you to do something, such as "hungry"/"food", "scared"/"comfort", etc.

Lol, don't have sex with things that get fleas and eat there own poo.  It's not difficult.  They are inferior lifeforms that aren't even aware of there own existence.  Resorting to  having sex with them is the ultimate failure of life, when you're not good enough for you're own species and you have to go for one that you don't need to impress.

didn't Anonymous#ns1dgrrSJ post definitions of consent in like great detail? didn't seem very complicated to me. has any court ever ruled that an animal can consent, or did they just rule that bestiality os gross but not criminal, cause those are two different things.

Animals don't have any concept of 'being used for sex'. Most animals have sex because of procreation, while there are a few species which use sex for other purposes, the majority of sex in the animal kingdom takes place for the sole purpose of reproduction.

That said, the animals typically 'used' in regards to beastiality are species which use sex for procreation. When a dog humps its owners leg, for example, it's eager to engage in sex for the purpose of reproducing. Because dogs see their owners as part of their 'pack', this behavior is perfectly naturally, especially in scenarios where the family is very small. Were the dog to have the knowledge that the sex with his owner would be in vain, because no pups would ever result, then he would seek out another sexual partner who COULD bear pups. This really applies to any species who has sex mostly for procreative purposes. Also, keep in mind that a male dog will attempt to have sex with any female dog that is in heat. If she allows it, she's receptive. If she disallows it, she is not. Were a female dog to allow a male to have sex with her, even out of heat, he would do so with the 'understanding' that she is receptive, and he would continue to do so until she disallowed it (no longer fertile).

Also, referring back to my statement regarding dogs and their seeing their owners as the pack, it's important to keep in mind that the submissive in a pack tolerates a lot of abuse from the alpha. A submissive wolf, for example, will tolerate an alpha snapping his teeth down around his muzzle, and yet he will continue to wag his tail and try to appease his alpha with licks to the muzzle and face. He tolerates this behavior because of his position in the pack...and because not tolerating it would cause an uproar in the pack, and possibly a fight (where more serious injury could occur).

So to say a dog humps your leg because he wants to engage in sex with you for the sole purpose of sexual gratification is not correct. The dog humps your leg because his biological urge, the driving force in his, and many animals' lives, is to reproduce. He sees you as a member of his pack, and as such, a potential carrier of his offspring...nothing more. He continues to hump your leg because you allow it (or rather, don't disallow it), and so he believes you to be fertile.

In regards to dogs being on 'bottom', this is something that is inexcusable. I've seen people argue that some dogs just 'like to be bottom'. Just because a dog does not growl, bite, or run away, does not mean he (or she) is willingly engaging in sex. Rather, the dog, the one lower in the pack hiearchy, is simply tolerating the behavior of his (or her) 'alpha'. Keep in mind that humping, in the canid world, is also a show of dominance. Essentially, the submissive is tolerating the alpha's display of dominance over him, and nothing more. To imply that the dog enjoys the act is ridiculous, since the dog cannot communicate such, and what communication does exsist during the act is unreliable, since, as mentioned, the submissive tolerates high levels of abuse in a pack setting without complaint, and sometimes even with eagerness or enthusiasm. By the logic being applied here (pro-beastiality), the submissive -enjoys- his muzzle being bitten and torn open by such, because he does not object, and eagerly laps at the alpha's muzzle.

Horses work in much the same way. Stallions engage in sex because they too are driven by the biological need to reproduce. They see you as members of their herd and again, as a potential partner. They continue their behavior because you allow it, whereas their real sexual partners (mares), dictate when there is sex based on their receptiveness. Also, as far as horses being bottom, horses are used to having things inserted into their genitalia...they lack the ability to understand that a penis, for example, is no different than an arm, which they are probably used to having inserted into their anus for medical purposes. To take advantage of the horse being trained to tolerate such things for medical purposes is just disturbing to me.

Now, that all said...note how I have not said whether it is moral or not. In my opinion, having sex with an animal whereupon the animal is made to be bottom, and it is not a female in season (receptive to sex), is rape...nothing more, nothing less, because of the reasons I've listed above.

Having a male animal hump you? Well, it's not rape so much as taking advantage of that animal's biological drive to reproduce, and also taking advantage of their inability to understand no offspring will result from the sexual encounter. Taking advantage of anything is wrong, but it's not rape. Is the animal emotionally scarred? No, but that certainly doesn't make it right since the animal can't consent for the reasons I've stated above. And trying to defend it is just silly. No matter how many different terms one uses, it's still utilizing an animal for your own personal gain, which is no different than, say, medical experiments on animals, or butchering animals for meat/fur. Just because the animal isn't traumatized in any way doesn't mean it's not being taken advantage of in the same way.

>>90
I'll ignore the relevent points and go to your first and only.  Male dogs frequently mate each other.  As do dolphins, horses, rodents, primates, apes, and elephants.
They do so out of season and incongruously with their instincts.
This indicates they are aware the act will not be procreative in nature.
Dolphins have been proven to be able to distinguish gender, and communicate it to humans, in laboratory tests.  Meaning they have understanding concept of male and female, procreation and recreation.
Dolphins in the wild are less prone to homosexual tendencies than those in captivity, due to boredom.  Furthermore, Dolphins have exhibited behavior in the wild of reduced procreational sex during times of reduces food or increased stress, indicating they are capable of contemplating the negative effects of increased population.  Or, in english, they abstain.

Nice attempt.  But arguing that animals are incapable of consent because they only perceive procreative sex, is false in many species.  Utterly false.
It is furthermore still incongruous with the definition of consent.  It still does not present facts to support that they cannot make a decision.
And most importantly, it presents no facts that harm is brought upon the animal in any way, thus making it immoral.


Please try to stay on topic with me if you're going to debate with me.  We're arguing the morality.  Whether it is harmful to the animal.  Not whether it's natural (which it is.  Google it, hundreds of pictures of inter-species mating) or whether it's ethical (because ethics vary and, intrinsically, are not to be considered in lawmaking.)

We also aren't arguing it's legality.  Because i've won that.  My state says it's morally and legally sound.
(As a mild supporting side note, the state outlaws purchase of alcohol on Sundays or during major holidays where DUI/DWI danger may increase due to higher traffic volumes.  A morally responsible law.)

Again.  I am arguing the morality, not the legality.  I have already won the legality without a debate being necessary.
It's legal.  Thus, it's legal.  Can't get much more cut and dry than facts.

So please save your insults, they only serve to further weaken your position.

Morality.  Not legality.  Not ethics.
Morality.  Whether it is right or wrong on the basis that it harms someone.
Morality.

>>95
Very, very well said.
In a debate of this nature, one can only validly look at logic, principles, and concepts.  Ethical impressions too often end up making the entirety of arguments, making the debate unproductive.  So I ignore them until another valid argument is made, one not made on assumptions, opinions, and fallacies.

My religion forbids me to own an animal, much less have sexual relationships with it.  (Owning another creature is to say you are above all other of God's creations, and is blasphemy.)  It also forbids eating insects and certain seafood (shrimp), to damage or alter my body (peircings, tattoos), work on Saturday, eat the meat of cloven hooved animals (Pigs), to eat food prepared in an unclean way (cruel treatment of animals), or raise a fist against another living thing except in defense of my life.
These are my beleifs.  But I do not beleive they have any place in a debate.  Because they are MY religion, MY beliefs.  They are not congruous with man's intrinsic sense of morality, or even necessarily with the majority.

>>97
Somewhat, I agree.

It would not fit my moral argument for a man to try to lay with, mm, say... a lion.  It would bring HIM harm.  Which, though his choice, would harm others in the sense that his friends and loved ones would be hurt emotionally.

>>94
Ah, so that’s how that works.  Well as ever, sex without consent is rape, and apparently, raping animals is legal where you come from.  Get to that then, and trouble yourself with my words no more, which don’t apply to you it would seem.

>>95
Whoa, I must admit this shocked me.  I heard of a similar situation locally once where a man had sex with a woman who had so much brain damage that she couldn’t speak properly.  He was charged with assault, and settled out of court for a lesser sentence, which included a restraining order.  He was hospitalized not long after by the victim’s brother who attacked him, and he dropped the charges for some reason before moving.  I never found out if he had harmed the woman or not, but it caused a bit of debate for a few weeks.

The laws where you are seem much more forgiving than they are here.  At best, if someone’s intelligence were so damaged as to be reduced to animal level, I can’t imagine anyone allowing them to be taken advantage of sexually.  On the other hand, I know a man with reduced IQ if you will.  He’s a nice enough sort, though he needs a bit of extra explaining.  He attends classes at the university and studies astronomy, though it is a special class that runs longer semesters with less students.  Nonetheless, he has a girlfriend, and indeed she has been looked upon as somewhat charitable, which I find a bit moving in a sorrowful way.

On the other hand, if you were to say he has no more intelligence than an animal, you would hurt his feelings greatly.  While it takes him longer to learn than the average measure, he does learn, and understands what is going on around him with sufficient clarity.

What I don’t understand is why I was considered to have failed for involving the delicate trouble of children when discussing consent, as it is largely on behalf of children that informed sexual consent needed to be developed for courts.  I suppose it involves some logical fallacy of course, or another large, important sounding word that carries lots of force... but I see little complication in linking, at least, your example of the mentally deficient with a young, mentally underdeveloped child...

>>101
1)   Agreed.
2)   Agreed.
3)   Agreed.

I think the argument speaks for itself at this point.  Noone can yet say how it hurts the animal if there is no force involved.

>>102
Lack of force=consent? Did I miss a memo?

>>105
Basically, yes.

See, cutting a cat's head off harms it.  Bestiality, non-forced, does not.

Making stark comparisons does not validate your argument.

I think i'm the only one who's still arguing.  Everyone else who isn't interested in actually proving it one way or the other have left.

I'm still waiting for someone to try to teach me how it's wrong.

>>109
Perhaps you missed my obvious previous statements.

Morality.  Not legality.


Still awaiting the answer.  'How is it wrong'?

>>110

Look mate, the morality is that sex without consent is rape.  Do I need to explain how rape is wrong, or can I at least have THAT as a given?

>>112
I can't believe I'm getting involved in this issue...

What if you were asleep nakid and a dog were to mount you in your sleep. Would you still be raping the misinformed dog?

>>113

You're creating your own definition of consent.  Can I at least have an instance... some example where anyone with any sort of academic credibility has ever defined animals as capable of the kind of consent that actually defines rape?  You like to discout the entire legal system as somehow being totally irrelevant, and you refuse to discuss that.  You haven't even remotely shown how the legal and moral systems are so completely exclusive that they have no possibility of baring on each other.  What I happen to be discussing is both a moral AND legal matter.

So it's legal where you are.  Again, it's legal to host a dog fight in thailand.  The point of that being that laws don't make it right.  Just because it's legal where you are doesn't mean you're somehow right to do it.  It does, rather, indicate that animals have absolutely no, or very little autonomy where you live.

Every time I mention that, your response is "Nope, that doesn't matter, everything you say therefore doesn't matter".  How does dismissing what I say without challenge constitute anything even kin to a valid argument?

(AntiB = Anti bestiality.  Pro B = Pro-bestiality.  Clar = Clarification needed for logical argument to continue.)

AntiB:  Bestiality is wrong.
Clar:  Define 'Wrong'.
Clar:  Wrong is defined as morally unacceptible actions.
Clar:  Define 'Morality'
Clar:  Morality is the basis of acceptible or unacceptible actions based on the sum of the effects of actions upon another living thing.
ProB:  What is immoral about it?
AntiB:  It is unethical/against my religion/against my beleifs.
Clar:  Subjective personal views.  Invalid response.
AntiB:  It is rape.
ProB:  How is it rape?
AntiB:  Animals cannot consent.
Clar:  Definition:
(n.
Acceptance or approval of what is planned or done by another; acquiescence. See Synonyms at permission.
Agreement as to opinion or a course of action: She was chosen by common consent to speak for the group.)
Clar:  Define 'Acquiescence'
Clar:  Definition:
(n.
Passive assent or agreement without protest.
The state of being acquiescent. )
ProB:  Animals can display lack of consent through hostility, violence, verbal or physical resistance.  Acquiescence is present when such behavior is not displayed.
AntiB:  Animals are not intelligent enough to consent.
ProB:  Animals are able to display sexual desires unprompted and unqueued.  Animals are able to display choice.  Animals are able to display acquiescence.
AntiB:  Consent is not possible with higher thought or intelligence.
Clar:  Define 'intelligence'
Clar:  Definition:
(n. 
The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.)
ProB:  Many animals are capable of learning and applying knowledge.  Primates and dolphins and apes can even communicate with humans on their level.  They are all able to display emotion.  They are capable of quantifying and abstract thought.  The requirements for intelligence have been met.
AntiB:  A child is too, but cannot consent.
Clar:  A child is capable of consent.  They are only legally restricted.  Argument invalid.
AntiB:  A retarded person is incapable of consent.
Clar:  Depending on degree of retardation, consent is capable.  They are only legally restricted.  Argument invalid.
ProB:  Additional suppositive reply:  A retarded man should still be able to choose for their own happyness if no harm occurs.
AntiB:  Neither the mentally handicapped nor animals are capable of making decisions informedly to prevent self-damage.
Clar:  Possibly true, situational.  AntiB is assuming all retardation results in loss of logic function.
ProB:  Guidance is necessary to prevent damage.  Agreed.  But Bestiality does not harm or damage them in any way.
AntiB:  Raping a child is wrong.  Raping a retard is wrong.
Clar:  Invalid statement.  Solely 'shock' value.  Rape is defined by consent and repurcussions.  Statements are not alligned with situation outlined in Bestiality of acquiescent consent without forceful or coercive methods or restraints.

(HERE is where all arguments on this board ended.  I go on to argue my own internal dissent to bestiality:)

AntiB:  It is socially/mentally damaging to underage humans to engage in sexual behavior.
ProB:  Underage humans are not animals.  Underage humans are harmed by social stigmas, ethical rejection and ostracization, and conflicting taught knowledge.  Animals lack social structures of this nature and cannot be mentally anguished or emotionally damaged, as animals do not ostracize or persecute for such acts.  Animals lack complex ethical structures.
Clar:  No further rebuttals conceived for either side.  End debate.  AntiB failed to prove how Bestiality is damaging.

Draw your own conclusions.


The best argument i've heard so far is from a friend that it may be immoral on the grounds that disease could transmit from animal to man, or vise versa, via the form of mutation.
The best and almost only morality argument thus far.  This is still invalid, however, because the transmission is often possible without physical contact, much less sexual.  It would be no different from a child sharing icecream with her dog.
Furthermore, human disease transmission is much more common.  Even with no known identified diseases, new diseases occur periodically which prevent prior knowledge to make such rational decisions even in humans.
Which further supports that ignorance does not invalidate consent.  Consent is situational in humans.  Thus it is in animals.

I am unable to convince myself it is wrong.
I am also unable to convince myself it is right.


The purpose of a debate is to inform others of ideas, and to convince one party of the others' views.
I still welcome any who would like to attempt this.

>>118

What?  Are you serious?  Well, I should like to meet this Clar fellow.  The most adept minds have spent thousands of years attempting to define morality, and here he did it in a neet little sentence that could have only taken a few seconds to write!  Awesome!

That, or, you know, it's a personal view, and thus invalid.

I've taken philosophy.  If you want to get existential, you can't even prove that I exist... or anything but yourself for that matter.  Assumption is required in order to function, and logical assumptions are those generated by observation and rational thought.  Whether animals have intelligence or not has never been disputed.  They aren't rocks or anything.  What my point is, and ever has been, is that they lack sufficient intelligence to be capable of informed consent, and informed consent is required for sex to not be rape.  Non-coessential  sex is legally defined as rape.

And why is it necessary to prove that it is damaging in order to prove that the motives are depraved?  All I would have to do for that is to show a thought process that disregards the autonomy of the second subject before making decisions to benifit the self.

"A child is capable of consent.  They are only legally restricted.  Argument invalid."

Okay seriously, your third little dude on the shoulder just said that the only thing that makes sex with children wrong is the law.  You've just, in a "logical" (to you) manner, decided that there's nothing morally reprehensible about sex with children.  Now, I'm sure Janglur isn't saying that, because that would be wrong, but this makes me reconsider what I've said about fictional character Clar.  Clar is an extremely terrible entity, and I'm glad he doesn't exist.