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by jeremysmyth
3780 days ago
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What change in attitude is going to stop sex-deprived men from acquiring what they are programmed to want more than anything else? This statement is profoundly insulting to the billions of men who have enough self-control every day not to destroy another person's bodily integrity and dignity to fulfil a temporary need. Just because some people cannot control themselves to obey the law and common respect does not suggest that their attitude is normal or cannot be changed. There's a similar argument used in certain conversations about rape to the effect that you wouldn't dangle a tasty slice of bacon in front of a dog and expect him not to jump for it. While that might be true of feral dogs, I've known many domesticated dogs who are capable of even that degree of self control, and I absolutely would not apply the same metaphor to humans, or otherwise suggest that we are incapable of distinguishing ourselves from feral animals in the face of certain desires. We're better than that, and for you to suggest otherwise is abhorrent. |
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You seem not to be familiar with Indian society at this moment in history. I won't trouble you with the details, since that might require setting aside one's ego for a moment. But for the sake of appealing to your strong sense of emotion, I'd like you envision a life where you live in abject, degrading poverty, you have no prospect of a better future, premarital sex and pornography are stigmatized, there are more men than women, prostitution is illegal, and there is essentially no realistic prospect you will ever have any consensual sexual encounter with a member of the opposite sex for the rest of your life. Maybe you'd feel slightly more like the feral dog than you do at the moment.
We are animals, in no way set apart from the other species. Those of us who exert "enough self-control every day not to destroy another person's bodily integrity" are merely lucky. To suggest otherwise simply reflects this profound, Utopian ignorance of the human condition that only the world's most pampered are privileged enough to relish without consequences.