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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Anatoly Karlin @powerfultakes

Replying to @RichardHanania

I'm against legalizing bestiality because the animal consent problem hasn't been solved, but probably actually will be quite soon thanks to Al (at least for the higher animals with complex languages). So why not wait a few more years. I don't see disgust as a good reason. It was an evolutionary adaptation of the agricultural era against the spread of zoonotic illnesses, but technology will soon make that entirely irrelevant as well.

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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone else has said this, so I shall.

What in the actual fuck.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is so hard because every one of his arguments is wrong, but the worst thing is that he's arguing this at all.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago

i like how he sees the "consent problem" as just a communication thing. "if they could speak, they would be saying yes"

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

of all the hills to die on, why would anyone pick this one lmao

[–] crypticthree@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Because they want to fuck animals?

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

There's no animal I'm aware of that has a mental capacity beyond that of a child. We don't think children are capable of giving consent - are we clearing the way to legalise paedophilia too, or are there animals with the mental capacity to provide informed consent that only lack the ability to communicate that consent?

Spoiler: It's not a communication issue. If this technocratic psycho was more concerned with actually contemplating the morality of the question, and less focused on rearranging the insides of a parrot, his takes might be a little less monstrous.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gotta wonder if that’s in any way related to how so many of those assholes have a hate-on for furries

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

holy mental gymnastics to make furries sound normal