Originally posted by Tassman
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It’s a question of what’s preferable rather than what’s necessary. Totalitarian regimes will survive OK – whether absolute monarchies or fascist dictatorships. But I personally would rather live in the free world, wouldn’t you?
Where did the beliefs of the Christian slave owners the oppressors of women and minority groups differ from NT principles? They justified them with their particular understanding of scripture just as you justify your beliefs. This difference in the interpreting of scripture is why there are so many religious wars in the name of Jesus – each side just knows they are the ones who have got it right. Don’t you.
Humans have rarely tolerated rape or preying on the vulnerable as acceptable – except in war, tragically. And the frequency of child-rape in families or by priests and pastors – or anyone in a position of power and authority - has never been accepted as appropriate or normal.
I know of no accounts of forced sex with juveniles among nonhuman primates. Admittedly bonobos engage in frequent sex in "all possible combinations"—including adults with juveniles—but they do not have sex with unwilling partners.
Male chimpanzees that wage a campaign of sustained aggression against females sire more offspring than their less violent counterparts, new research finds.The results suggest that such nasty behavior from males evolved because it gave the meanest males a reproductive advantage, said study co-author Ian Gilby, a primatologist at Arizona State University in Phoenix.This chimpanzee behavior could also provide some insight into the roots of sexual aggression in men. https://www.livescience.com/48743-ag...duce-more.html
Animal coercive sex
Further information: Sexual coercion, Sexual selection, and Sexual conflict
It has been noted that behavior resembling rape in humans is observed in the animal kingdom, including ducks and geese[citation needed], bottlenose dolphins,[1] and chimpanzees.[2] Indeed, in orangutans, close human relatives, copulations of this nature may account for up to half of all observed matings.[3] Such behaviors, referred to as 'forced copulations', involve an animal being approached and sexually penetrated as it struggles or attempts to escape. These observations of forced sex among animals are not controversial. What is controversial is the interpretation of these observations and the extension of theories based on them to humans. "Thornhill introduces this theory by describing the sexual behavior of scorpionflies. In which the male may gain sex from the female either by presenting a gift of food during courtship or without a nuptial offering, in which case force is necessary to restrain her."[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiological_theories_of_rape#Animal_coercive_s ex
Animal coercive sex
Further information: Sexual coercion, Sexual selection, and Sexual conflict
It has been noted that behavior resembling rape in humans is observed in the animal kingdom, including ducks and geese[citation needed], bottlenose dolphins,[1] and chimpanzees.[2] Indeed, in orangutans, close human relatives, copulations of this nature may account for up to half of all observed matings.[3] Such behaviors, referred to as 'forced copulations', involve an animal being approached and sexually penetrated as it struggles or attempts to escape. These observations of forced sex among animals are not controversial. What is controversial is the interpretation of these observations and the extension of theories based on them to humans. "Thornhill introduces this theory by describing the sexual behavior of scorpionflies. In which the male may gain sex from the female either by presenting a gift of food during courtship or without a nuptial offering, in which case force is necessary to restrain her."[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiological_theories_of_rape#Animal_coercive_s ex
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