• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    If treating other animals like they behave towards other animals is acceptable, the only reason beastiality would be illegal is because of “ew”.

    laws are bad, and don’t have anything to do with morality

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      9 days ago

      Substitute illegal with “prohibited according to the social contract of your anarchist commune” then. Or with whatever form of society and its rule system you would like to live in where the rules are a moral guide.

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        8 days ago

        that’s not how morality (or rules) works at all. morals are formed from an ethical system. deontologists have the categorical imperative, utilitarianism and hedonism have the maximization of pleasure, divine command theorists have the command of the deity, virtue ethicists have moderation between competing extremes. if any of them prohibit sex with animals, it’s probably only divine command theory and maybe the categorical imperative. I guess the big “eww” factor could put off the virtue ethicists, too (bestiality isn’t very aesthetic).

        rules and laws are meant to keep social order. where they prohibit thing like killing or some other ethically bad thing, it is only a coincidence.