Just to be clear I also find what happened in Steubenville unacceptable, then again I find a lot of sex related things unacceptable that you probably don’t.
Care to explain why [the Steubenville perpetrators should be convicted criminals]?
Their actions weren’t consensual among all the participants. The places in law or morality where non-consensual acts between private citizens are allowed are few and far between.
I’m aware of your hypothetical about high caste people wanting a huge physical space from lower caste people. That’s not about consent—that’s about what acts society requires consent to perform. Physical contact is a pretty clear line.
Whether it was “rape” depends on vagaries in the definitions in Ohio’s criminal code. That’s why I’m talking about the category of sexual assault.
That’s not about consent—that’s about what acts society requires consent to perform. Physical contact is a pretty clear line.
Except that’s not where society actually draws the line. For example, there are people who for religious reason don’t what what to be touched by any member of the opposite sex who isn’t a relative or spouse. Yet we don’t demand consent before touching in social situations even though some people might object to being touched.
Edit: also why that particular Schelling point? The history of attitudes towards sex over the past century is a series of Schelling points regulating what is or is not acceptable sex getting overturned. Why, shouldn’t this one also be overturned?
For example, there are people who for religious reason don’t what what to be touched by any member of the opposite sex who isn’t a relative or spouse. Yet we don’t demand consent before touching in social situations even though some people might object to being touched.
The law surely does require consent. Implied-consent-from-social-context is different from overriding non-consent.
Not obvious given that the Steubenville victim didn’t even know about it and thus couldn’t have suffered trauma until she found out about it several days later.
Given how the perpetrators acted, it was virtually certain the victim would find out. Parading her around and bragging about what they’d done might not have been done with the purpose of causing her to find out or humiliate her. But it certainly was an easily predictable consequence.
Care to explain why?
Just to be clear I also find what happened in Steubenville unacceptable, then again I find a lot of sex related things unacceptable that you probably don’t.
Their actions weren’t consensual among all the participants. The places in law or morality where non-consensual acts between private citizens are allowed are few and far between.
I’m aware of your hypothetical about high caste people wanting a huge physical space from lower caste people. That’s not about consent—that’s about what acts society requires consent to perform. Physical contact is a pretty clear line.
Whether it was “rape” depends on vagaries in the definitions in Ohio’s criminal code. That’s why I’m talking about the category of sexual assault.
Except that’s not where society actually draws the line. For example, there are people who for religious reason don’t what what to be touched by any member of the opposite sex who isn’t a relative or spouse. Yet we don’t demand consent before touching in social situations even though some people might object to being touched.
Edit: also why that particular Schelling point? The history of attitudes towards sex over the past century is a series of Schelling points regulating what is or is not acceptable sex getting overturned. Why, shouldn’t this one also be overturned?
The law surely does require consent. Implied-consent-from-social-context is different from overriding non-consent.
Also, I doubt that they suffer anywhere near the level of trauma from this compared to the Steubenville victim.
Not obvious given that the Steubenville victim didn’t even know about it and thus couldn’t have suffered trauma until she found out about it several days later.
Given how the perpetrators acted, it was virtually certain the victim would find out. Parading her around and bragging about what they’d done might not have been done with the purpose of causing her to find out or humiliate her. But it certainly was an easily predictable consequence.
Would you have objected it they hadn’t bragged about it and posted pictures on their website?
That’s irrelevant as she did find out, probably would have found out eventually, and almost everybody strongly values knowing what happened to them.