Is Bestiality Wrong?

I agree. If you accept causing animal suffering in other areas, then your qualms about bestiality might very well be based on personal feelings of disgust.Let me ask a question: suppose that it could be shown that a particular animal enjoys sex with a human being. So now it's no longer a matter of suffering. Could you now accept bestiality in that case?

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

Does he have to?

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

Well, an active, working moral system is what it is -- it certainly isn't going to be determined by "compromise". A person is either going to feel that something is wrong or she isn't. I don't think a person's deep feelings about something is going to change because of a "compromise". The moral system of a society is going to be determined by a rather complex interaction between the personal beliefs and feelings of its members. In fact, it may be hard to determine in some cases just what the "moral system" of a society (as opposed to its legal system) allows as proper.You may be talking about how a society determines what actions are strictly prohibited and what actions are allowed despite its morality -- but in this case we have to be careful that we aren't talking about different things under that same word "morality". The problem of equivocation and all that.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

Go away.

Why should we outlaw or prohibit an activity that might, perhaps, maybe introduce some plague into our society when we are allowing at this time an activity that we know have been and is a source of plagues? Because chicken nuggets are yummy but bestiality is icky?

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

I'm just curious about how one chooses which risks we are going to manage and which we accept as life not being risk-free. Spanish Influenza wiped out about 40 million people in about a year, small pox was a scourge for centuries, and you have already brought up SARS and Bird Flu. Yet plopping a steak on the grill is just part of the way life isn't risk-free, but a visit to the goat brothel presents a risk that needs to be managed.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

It's also not on topic. But I'm mostly responding to mention that I think your handle is pretty good. (Also, I missed Jaderis' post the first time around, and so I'm grateful that you brought it to my attention.)

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

Sure. You also dismissed rational, public health reasons for prohibiting animal husbandry in general. In fact, you seemed quite indignant that such a comparison could be made, so indignant you make barely rational comments on sobriety laws and speed limits.1918-1919. 40 million people dead.Small pox. SARS. Bird flu. And epidemiologists who study this sort of thing are even more scared than global climatologists.We have a rational, public health reasons to prohibit animal husbandry. Obviously there is a lot more going on here than rational concerns about public health.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

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Heh. That's pretty much what it comes down to, isn't it?

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

anastasia already told you:

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That's a good clue about morality. Some things you just feel in your gut.

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Pretty much.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders