Bestiality

[Ratman_tf]

Ok, this is a sick thought, but why do we care whether the animal consents? Do we ask for consent before we kill and eat it? Surely that is worse that what is suggested in this thread.

Arguably, killing and eating an animal is necessary. Sex with them is not.

 

[Ratman_tf]

Actually, isn't this a pretty good arguement for vegetarianism? If we think that animals have enough ability to percieve pain and humiliation to be victimizable by rape, then mustn't we assume their ability to percieve the tragedy of their own deaths and/or those of others?

Some animals seem to be aware of death, some don't.

I think bestiality reflects more on the perpetrator though.

 

[metropolis_part_one]

Arguably, killing and eating an animal is necessary. Sex with them is not.

In some countries eating animals is necessary for survival. This is not true of most developed countries though. And the claim that because something is not necessary, it is wrong, does not really hold up. There is not much left in our world today that is truly 'necessary' for our survival.
As for bestiality reflecting on the perpetrator, yes, of course it does. But this does not make it wrong:
I hold that as long as animals are slaughtered for food, there can be no objection to bestiality as consent is clearly not an issue with 'animals'.