The notion that there is information to be gained by categorizing things after they are fully described is useless from a utilitarian perspective.
I guess I Agree Denotationally But Disagree Connotationally. As in, that is technically true in a hypothetical situation wherein you can fully describe a situation, but a human is unlikely to find themself in such a situation (at least for the time being), and my question was not an attempt to categorize a described thing—rather, it was an attempt to elicit a description for a categorized thing.
It is relevant to a discussion with wedrifid, regarding rape, what wedrifid means by the term.
I do not believe PUA is rape. I do not believe that “acting confident and suppressing nervousness is rape”. I do believe that sex coerced without the threat of sexual violence can still “count” as rape.
To say that PUA techniques and theories regarding persuasion necessarily count as rape is, to me, absurd. To say that they could not be used in a coercive manner seems equally absurd (like saying “if you’re going to trick people you don’t need psychology” (and therefore the study of psychology, divorced from ethical concerns, would not teach people how to trick others)).
I do not believe PUA is rape. I do not believe that “acting confident and suppressing nervousness is rape”. I do believe that sex coerced without the threat of sexual violence can still “count” as rape.
So do I. There are all sorts of coercion that are on the order of potency as physical violence or sometimes even worse which do constitute rape. (I actually drafted a reply to anonymous along these lines but the details were starting to seem distracting.)
I guess I Agree Denotationally But Disagree Connotationally. As in, that is technically true in a hypothetical situation wherein you can fully describe a situation, but a human is unlikely to find themself in such a situation (at least for the time being), and my question was not an attempt to categorize a described thing—rather, it was an attempt to elicit a description for a categorized thing.
It is relevant to a discussion with wedrifid, regarding rape, what wedrifid means by the term.
I do not believe PUA is rape. I do not believe that “acting confident and suppressing nervousness is rape”. I do believe that sex coerced without the threat of sexual violence can still “count” as rape.
To say that PUA techniques and theories regarding persuasion necessarily count as rape is, to me, absurd. To say that they could not be used in a coercive manner seems equally absurd (like saying “if you’re going to trick people you don’t need psychology” (and therefore the study of psychology, divorced from ethical concerns, would not teach people how to trick others)).
So do I. There are all sorts of coercion that are on the order of potency as physical violence or sometimes even worse which do constitute rape. (I actually drafted a reply to anonymous along these lines but the details were starting to seem distracting.)