hiredgun:
That was my Ethical possibility no.1
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- People have the right to pursue their own life projects so long as these do not interfere with other people doing the same. Rape prevents people from pursusing their life projects, so is wrong.
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The victim has the right to go about their business without being violently attacked. And the rapist infringes that right.
Where we seem to disagree is that you claim rights are not "moral reasons".
I believe that rights and duties are what morality is all about
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The ethical debate over abortion is about issues such as the
right to life and the
right to control your own body and the
duty to protect possible living beings.
The ethical debate over euthanasia is over whether we have a
right to die, or whether life is too sacred to be given up.
But I am open to other points of view if you actually think that rights are not part of ethics/morality.
Please note that I am not trying to say sodomy is like rape because it is bad or should be outlawed or is a similar sort of act. Merely that in deciding whether to outlaw it we must make ethical judgements of a similar nature to the ones we make about rape or any action for that matter.