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I am. And the very sad conclusion I'm forced to draw is that most people don't care enough about others to prevent unnecessary and easily preventable suffering.
Like the case at hand.
The woman ended in a hospital. Maybe - just maybe! - the men participating in the stunt should had stopped for a fraction of a second to think if they were enabling and causing unnecessary suffering.
Maybe.
I might be wrong.
People are into some weird shit, some of it is dangerous and/or disgusting. They were all consenting adults and it's wrong to use violence to coerce them into behaving in ways that are less offensive to our sensibilities.
Just because it's legal, doesn't make correct.
The same way, many of the dangerous and/or disgusting things some individuals are into are considered a disturb.
Following that, and remembering the spirit of my original reply, that by now has been removed, I would strongly - very strongly - disincentivize any friend or acquaintance if they told me they considered either taking part or were indifferent to the outcome of such a stunt. It would be one of those friendship ending situation.
This is a calous indiference to human suffering and an easily preventable and avoidable one. And exploitation of it. Which is extremely sad. It is a telling sign of the times we live in.
I'm not defending it on the basis of it being legal, I don't think that's relevant here. It's enough that everyone involved was an adult and gave their willing consent.
People do things that cause them to suffer all the time, often in the pursuit of pleasure. We have neither the realistic means nor the moral authority to protect them from the consequences of their bad choices.
I'm not going to try and tell you that I wouldn't judge everyone involved for choosing to live their lives this way, because I definitely would, but coercing them with violence into making different choices would likely do little to to prevent the original harm and only add more on top of it.
I'm not advocating for generalized violence. My original remark wasn't about that.
I'm not pointing fingers at the woman.
What I am trying to convey is that the men taking part in whatever that was never stopped to consider they were enabling and enacting harm on another human being.
And that could be prevented, if any person could recognize the wrong in the situation. Something which, apparently, missed everyone.
She's an adult, she's allowed to make her own decisions about consent. For some reason you don't seem to like that.
I'm bothered with all the people abusing her consent.
Nobody abused anything, she could have withdrew her consent at any point. That's how it works.
This is just pearl-clutching bullshit. People like sex. Grow up.
Have a nice one. Good to hear from you.
Good to hear from me? I replied to your comment 7 mins after your reply lol...
But sure thing dude, if you want to pretend you're "the bigger man" or whatever then go for it. Have a nice day.