Nor can an animal legally enter into contracts or otherwise do anything. What does this have to do with consent. Who is to say an animal can't consent or otherwise desire something. Is it still bestiality if a women smears her vagina with peanut butter hoping her dog will 'eat her out?' Probably. Was the animal forced into the activity...don't think so.
Just because something is legally so, doesn't make it so. It's tough to argue against laws using facts that are only so because of laws? Consent from a minor....17 or 7 is not legally possible. Does that make it so? Certainly not.
Imagine if you will a law which prevented homosexuals to legally consent to anything. That wouldn't make it so, would it?
I agree one hundred percent with your last sentence. I have said nothing to the contrary through out this entire discussion. Even though governments routinely and as a matter of principle do exactly that....forcibly involves itself in the beliefs of others. Always has...always will.
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