Consent is a useful but also utterly bananas magic concept. Eg: *If you're 16, your ability to consent to sex depends on the age of your partner *consent only counts if it's enthusiastic *Must be verbal to count *Only important for your body, not your livelihood or property 1/
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ppl who don't wanna pay taxes or kids who don't wanna go to school or people who want to take the wrong kind of drugs or people who want to sell their bodies for sex. It's ok to violate their consent because it's "for a greater good". 4/
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So the actual cultural definition of "consent" is closer to: wanting/rejecting something that society deems is for the greater good, and where validity of that desire/rejection being dependent on how much power that person has. 5/
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To be extremely clear, I'm not arguing that since consent is a bananas concept, we should throw out everything. For example, kids often "consent" to sexual experiences with pedophiles because they're kids who don't know better; the bad thing here is the intense betrayal. 6/
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I'm arguing to quit consent as a magical concept. Take it off the pedestal; there's lots of other ways to handle understanding "boundaries around what we want", and it's often different for different types of situations. Thinking in consent just blurs what's actually going on.
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I think that, in practice, consent is treated as an interest rather than an act, a desire, an intention, or some other mental state. For instance, consider people's attitudes towards, say, having sex with vs. performing a medical procedure on a low IQ person.
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By "consent" here you mean "informed consent"? If yes, this may be a good read https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/informed-consent/ …
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