Of course, you can try to rescue the claim by arguing that consent has to be properly informed, and only certain kinds of human relations allow for informed consent, but the chances of making this sort of move without indulging in special pleading - or truism - are small.
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To put this all very simply, if you're a guy, and you're able to find a woman willing to be your domestic servant - genuinely willing, of her own free will, etc - then it's not in the least bit clear there'd be no moral problem in making her your domestic servant.
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Also some people prefer to exchange autonomy for security or stability or certainty
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Yes, they do. But presumably there moral limits. Even if a person might do no wrong in consenting to the right of another to administer corporal punishment (not for pleasure, punishment that causes distress), it's not clear the person carrying out the punishment does no wrong.
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Perhaps, though isn't this just the definition of "happy" to different people? Can you be doing wrong if your action genuinely makes the other person happy? Deep questions of morality vs individual desires or responses
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Maybe you can (if one thinks human flourishing or some such is morally as significant as happiness, etc). But it's those sorts of thoughts that led to the clumsily qualified way in which I expressed the objection - i.e., "Not in the least bit clear...".
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Can you give consent when there are social repercussions for not doing so? Example, the hijab. You can “consent” to wear it, but choosing not to brings judgement and social marginalization. To me that is just being under duress, not real consent.
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