Ted Hoffman

SingleDad
I would never come close to think of outlawing ANYTHING. Who the F am I? And I agree with you when you say "It seems that if one detests an activity, they can achieve the full benefit possible merely by personally refraining from that activity". I agree absolutely.
I just want to know how people here feel about these acts. (maybe then I can realise how puritanical I am).
I take it you have chosen option f?
Than you for participating.

SingleDad

jaliet

Relax, dude. This is the Moral Foundations and Principles forum; I'm going to interpret your comments from an ethical perspective. If you find an ethical interpretion offensive, you would be better served by posting a poll in the Misc Discussions forum, where that default interpretation is not encouraged.

Personally, I consider approval of another person's private life condescending and almost as intrusive as disapproval. It's frankly none of my business (from an ethical perspective) what someone does or doesn't like in private.

MrLoverLover

Jaliet, you may want to add incest to your question.

Monkeybot

I think eating feces is disgusting and perverted -- but not necessarily immoral. After all, if someone else wants to do it without hurting anybody else, they are free to do so. It's only hurting themselves. If you want to eat rancid meat, for example, go for it.

Necrophilia is, in my view, all three. Although a corpse itself doesn't feel anything, other living humans might have an emotional attachment -- say if it was the corpse of their mother -- and your having sex with that corpse would then be wrong.

Bestiality is a hard one. I am generally against it for reasons of consent; how can you tell if a dog is consenting to have sex with you? I think this could in some circumstances border on animal cruelty, if not directly cross that line.

Anal sex is fine with me.

So my answer is probably f, just because I disagree with equating "perverted" and "immoral."

ju'iblex

none of the above float my boat (to put it as tactfully as possible) but unless its putting someone else or themselves in danger, its none of my business wat people do in their bedrooms (or wherever else these acts may take place)

Ted Hoffman

juiblexYou have picked a
Thank you

atheist_in_foxhole

d

Ales

My answer is (f). Necrophilia also seems to be concomitant to other disorders. People with this aberration often tend to become murderers. It also seems that there is a treatment for this. I personally consider equally disgusting when someone had sexual intercourse with some deceased relative of mine and when his corpse had to undergo the autopsy. I think that with regards to how some animals are domesticated and to how animals are cruelly dealt with in other respects, the objection against zoophilia consisting in rejecting of maltreatment of animals is not very strong. I have read something about very dangerous epidemics which afflicted people severely and which originated by the transfer from animals to humans, however. I saw an estimate that 3.8% American women engage in sexual activities with animals (1998).
There is a poll for Jailet: Which of these do you think are disgusting?

Rectoscopy, parasitological analysis of a sample of feces, artificial rectum, artificial respiration of an old patient, who has vomited, using your mouth, autopsy, abdominal surgery, coloclysis, gastrolavage, rhinenchisis, whooping cough, fixing a fracture.

All this is disgusting to me, but I don't think anything of this is immoral.

Ted Hoffman

Slow down. You are asking me about jobs, diseases, procedures....
What is this? what is common about these things - medicene?
fixing a fracture? Jesus christ - what the hell kind of question is this?

crackrabbit

I think Ales is pointing out that disgusting is not the same as immoral.