Be civil and follow principle of charity in the comments.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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      I disagree. As I understood it, their point was that an animal is a living thing capable of having feelings about a situation and a door is an inanimate object with no feelings or thoughts at all. Dogs can suffer PTSD from being mistreated but a door has no such capacity.

      That would make the first comment a false equivalence and their rebuttal valid. In turn we must either present a better equivalent or justify the validity of the original statement.

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.org
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          21 hours ago

          Consent is needed for sexual morally correct intercourse if you want to do it with something capable of having feelings. So having feelings has something to do with consent, because:

          Consent is not needed if the thing we’re doing it to is inanimate and doesn’t have the capability of feeling anything.

          • Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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            why are feelings important with regards to consent? consent is the ability to understand and agree. feelings have nothing to do with that. the ability to consent has nothing to do with feelings if you don’t already have the ability to understand and agree.

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              20 hours ago

              Consent is needed if you do something with another being with feelings. Feelings aren’t needed to be able to consent. That’s simple logic, if you can’t understand that you’re incapable of discussing that argument.

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                20 hours ago

                Feelings aren’t needed to be able to consent.

                so why do you keep bringing it up? it’s absurd to discuss consent from something that is incapable of consent.

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                20 hours ago

                Consent is needed if you do something with another being with feelings.

                you haven’t shown why you think this is reasonable from subjects which are incapable of consent, nor bothered to define feelings.