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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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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can you clarify what you mean 'by what society deems is for the greater good' or is that synonymous with 'what society finds reprehensible vs permissible'
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Unfortunately culture, not logical ethics, forms the basis for most law.
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