well rape is only bad beacuse it has negative consequences on the victim; their personal agency/will being violated (and everything entails). its personal agency isn't being violated if it's consenting to the best of its ability. and this is different from say a child or a mentally disabled person because those people have mental faculities greater than where they are. for example, a child will and does have the mental faculties beyond what they might agree to, so statutory rape will still lead to negative implications. a mentally disabled person also has the capacity to feel differently than what they're expressing, so while they might be willing to fuck, internally there is still a strong likelihood that they will get hurt, because their biological capacity for consciousness is deeper than what they can express. this simply isn't true adult animals that are mentally sound, right?
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