"First off, we're not talking about anything as serious as rape. And second, everyone has the "right" to do what they choose to do. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that the action itself isn't ethical or non-ethical."
You don't get to judge the seriousness of the trauma experiences by another. And where do you draw that line between what sort of abuse someone has the "right" to inflict on another? I was completely broadsided, betrayed, emotionally traumatized, and had my life torn apart. I was severely depressed, suicidal, suffered from PTSD, and was medicated and hospitalized. But by your account someone had a "right" to do that to me? NOBODY has the "right" to abuse another being - emotionally, physically, or otherwise. Period.
I think we will have to agree to disagree here. The notion that "everyone has the right to do what they choose to do" even when those actions inflict trauma on another being is just plain dangerous rhetoric.
____________________________ "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus
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