Posted by so on May 19, 2005, at 9:03:38
In reply to Re: The difference between eating meat and rape » so, posted by alexandra_k on May 19, 2005, at 3:26:41
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> What seems to have changed is the definition of rape. It used to be that it was impossible to rape your wife BECAUSE SHE WAS YOUR WIFE TO DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANTED TO DO WITH HER.When and in what culture are you referring to? European cultures? Are you saying collegial behavior between the sexes is purely a product of post-industrial revolution and maybe Western culture?
> That change is actually a fairly recent move...
> And if you are looking at actual practice of what human beings do in fact do over thousands or even tens of thousands of years you will find that it is statistically *normal* for males to use force to make females sleep with them because they can (ie they tend to be stronger).I would be interested to see those statistics from a peer-reviewed source.
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> But that does not make it morally acceptable.
>It made it morally acceptable to those people in that time and place. Or are you suggesting your morals now dictate what is morally acceptable now and always for everybody?
There might be a time when pouring sulfur dioxide into the air is considered immoral, but today few so consider it. Some people today consider dancing immoral, but others don't.
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