Is beastiality immoral?

[Gjallarhorn]

Hey, if the device fits the orifice...

Put it wasn't meant to go there...no wait it was...

 

[Skwim]

yes, that is true - humans made dildos so really not the same at all.

Nature did not intend for man and beast to create a union of lust.

So, you and nature talk with each other very often?

 

[Bismillah]

So, you and nature talk with each other very often?

What would be the biological benefit of having intercourse with animals?

 

[Skwim]

Or maybe they are just paraphiliacs and are highly disturbed individuals.

And they're maybe not.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

And they're maybe not.

No they are. The act of bestiality is abnormal.

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

Put it wasn't meant to go there...no wait it was...

Intelligent design.

 

[Skwim]

So, you and nature talk with each other very often?

What would be the biological benefit of having intercourse with animals?

Boy, where did that come from?

Anyway, none that I know of, but do all human interactions need to have a biological benefit to be of value?

 

[Bismillah]

Anyway, none that I know of, but do all human interactions need to have a biological benefit to be of value?

If there is no biological benefit does that not contradict "nature"

Anyway, none that I know of, but do all human interactions need to have a biological benefit to be of value?

Sex with an animal is purely a sexual urge, there is no sense of greater empathy or emotion.

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

What would be the biological benefit of having intercourse with animals?

It was beneficial to syphilis.

 

[Skwim]

No they are. The act of bestiality is abnormal.

So is the ability to hit high C (C4), but that doesn't mean it's bad. And while bestiality behavior may be abnormal it isn't necessarily paraphilic.

 

[Skwim]

If there is no biological benefit does that not contradict "nature"

Guess that depends on your definition of nature.

Sex with an animal is purely a biological urge, there is no sense of greater empathy or emotion.

Never having partaken, I'll take your word for it.

 

[Valjean]

just the thought of bestiality makes me cringe. Even without morals added in, it's still distasteful to me.

This reminds me a lot of the research of Johnathan Haidt on the foundations of morality. Among all but intellectuals it seems to correlate more with disgust or symbolic disrespect than with actual harm. http://www.msmidia.com/CEPRUA/artigos/affect.pdf

I will use one of my favourite experessions again here:

bestiality is wrong because it is against the Order of Nature.

Human was designed to have sex with human , nothing else.

Ah, the old order of Nature argument-- as if morality had anything to do with Nature.

There is no design, and when, since the Pleistocene, has 'proper' human behavior ever been natural?

Nature did not intend for man and beast to create a union of lust.

Nature does not intend anything. There is no design.

 

[Bismillah]

Guess that depends on your definition of nature.

What biological advantage would it serve a human to have sex with an animal? I can't think of none and Trey provided an excellent decentive of viruses transmitted from intra species sex.

Never having partaken, I'll take your word for it.

Neither have I, but is it possible otherwise?

 

[Skwim]

What biological advantage would it serve a human to have sex with a human? I can't think of none

It was a common practice in days of old to produce as many offspring as necessary to help with the farm work.

Neither have I, but is it possible otherwise?

I suppose

 

[Bismillah]

Sorry I meant intra-species

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I just don't believe that zoophilia is paraphilia but criminal. It's akin to child molestation.

 

[-Peacemaker-]

What scares me is that I think if I asked the question: "is pedophilia immoral", that there are more people here than would admit to believing that it's o.k. under the circumstances that it's "consensual" or "initiated" by the child. I'm sure there's a convoluted argument which says that pedophilia was once an accepted practice in ancient times and perhaps has been accepted in human history far longer than it has been seen as obscene.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

What scares me is that I think if I asked the question: "is pedophilia immoral", that there are more people here than would admit to believing that it's o.k. under the circumstances that it's "consensual" or "initiated" by the child. I'm sure there's a convoluted argument which says that pedophilia was once an accepted practice in ancient times and perhaps has been accepted in human history far longer than it has been seen as obscene.

There are people who believe just that. And they use the same arguments that pro-zoophilia and pro-prostitution people use.

 

[Skwim]

What scares me is that I think if I asked the question: "is pedophilia immoral", that there are more people here than would admit to believing that it's o.k. under the circumstances that it's "consensual" or "initiated" by the child. I'm sure there's a convoluted argument which says that pedophilia was once an accepted practice in ancient times and perhaps has been accepted in human history far longer than it has been seen as obscene.

I think your imagination is in overdrive and you're letting it scare you.

 

[Valjean]

Who here is pro-zoophilia, Cynthia?