Nice reading comprehension.
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I'll be as glib as I please.
I don't think you understand what the word "blame" means.
Well obviously God enters into it, no pun intended.
I mean there is such a thing as goodness itself and that all ethics follows from this. We probably shouldn't have this argument as it is obviously a huge one. I have a lot of time right now, but not that kinds of time. I shouldn't have brought it up. I apologize.
It is a crime and is the fault and moral failure of the perpetrator.
You certainly appear to be. In natural law ethics, the sexual act itself has ontological reality. The final cause of the act is procreative but it is also unitive. The act itself can be licit or illicit regardless of the intentions of the actors or even the results of the action if it frustrates or perverts (in…
Plato disagrees, but you know best, of course.
Except that it isn't rationalization for violent crimes.
Also masturbation, anal sex, oral sex, and sex outside of marriage. You honestly don't seem to know what you are talking about.
No, but it does require a concept of the transcendent good in order to be morally binding.
But it's not as if all sex is considered sinful, only sex that is inherently incapable of that which they think makes sex sacred.
Do you have the vapors? Are you going to faint like a. Old Victorian lady?
Not quite. There is hardly any living philosophical tradition in the west apart from the liberal tradition. However, most people are not philosophers and live by custom. Liberalism, both classical and modern, tends to be destructive of the social order, but this is a gradual process. There are always unprincipled…
Obviously, the amount of sexual assault isn't fixed. What I mean is, if we actually want to lesson the frequency of sexual assault, the people who are in no sense to blame may (or may not, I'm just saying it's possible) may need to alter their behavior. It's not fair, but neither is life.
I agree with everything you have said except "that's not the point".
It's easy as pie, and yet people still do it.
What I meant is that I doubt anyone here knows much about the particulars of the situation outside of what they reason the papers. I did not mean to imply that nobody knows how to improve the situation.
You guys may or may not know this, but history actually started kind of a long time ago. Now, I don't expect everyone to know about Babylonian sexual rituals, but knowing something about the intellectual world of your great grandparents isn't too much to ask.