Posted: Jul 17, 2013 2:44 pm
mattthomas wrote:Shrunk wrote:Federico wrote:I haven't claimed anything, and certainly I wouldn't put incest in the same basket with bestiality.
I would. It is generally disapproved of because of the degree of disgust it evokes in most people, but it is otherwise difficult to form a rational argument for its proscription based on the moral principles we generally use.
Morality isn't about disgust, it's about doing harm.
That depends on whether you are speaking prescriptively or descriptively. I'm doing the latter.
I'm not sure if this is what you are arguing, but if you are saying that bestiality is immoral because it causes harm to the animal, then is it immoral to keep an animal in captivity and then kill it for food?