PeonForHer
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ORIGINAL: Wheldrake quote:
ORIGINAL: PeonForHer There's a very long-established moral view that has it that an immoral thought is as bad as an immoral act. What can I say? It isn't, and that long-established moral view is simply wrong. I tend to think of morality as a nebulous realm where nothing is simply wrong or simply right, but in practice I fundamentally agree with you. I have a little deal with the dark side of my psyche: it can think about whatever it likes, however twisted, but I'm under absolutely no obligation to translate its ruminations into concrete action. It's worked pretty well so far. For me the issue actually goes beyond sexuality. My instinctive response to things that seem to horrify other people is often one of interest, or even excitement, and that can happen independently of sexual arousal. I don't feel guilty about these aesthetic reactions, since they don't have any practical consequences. A thought, in itself, doesn't impinge on anything outside the confines of the skull. I think that what we're looking at here, Wheldrake, is yet another ancient, Christian, fuck-up. I do not care if someone gets his or her jollies from fantasies of torturing and killing a small child. I only care if he or she actually *does* go out and tortures and kills a small child. God's sakes: if the legal world considered that desires were the same as actions, I'd have been locked up in prison, forever, long ago.
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