The Auron MacIntyre Show - March 10, 2023


Consent-Based Morality Is a Disaster ｜ 3⧸10⧸23


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

169.346

Word count

1,545

Sentence count

67

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Hate speech

2

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Summary

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A recent BBC documentary suggested that Bill Cosby should have been able to pay consenting women to take drugs and simulate the act of rape without the need for consent in order to get his kink out. But is this a fair assessment of modern moral standards?

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00:00:30.000 A recent BBC documentary on the life of Bill Cosby has suggested that the comedian should have been able to pay consenting women to take drugs and simulate the act of raping an unconscious female.
00:00:41.780 The rather corpulent, non-binary sex therapist Sona Lee Rashtarar explained to filmmakers that sex negativity is what causes this type of behavior, 0.99
00:00:51.860 and that in a sex-positive world, Cosby wouldn't have needed to drug and rape unconscious women because he could have purchased a similar experience from consenting prostitutes.
00:01:02.000 The fact that anyone, especially a BBC documentary, would turn to such a creature for advice on sex and its moral ramifications
00:01:09.420 says everything about the condition of Western civilization.
00:01:13.360 Rashtarar advocated for letting people purchase such experiences in order to get their kink out and emphasize that consent should be the only factor necessary to make the exchange socially and legally acceptable.
00:01:25.820 While the statement feels shocking in the specific context of Cosby and his actions,
00:01:30.560 it's simply the logical conclusion of a standard that is regularly applied in our culture today.
00:01:36.280 Those in Western nations like to believe that they live in an age of secular enlightenment.
00:01:41.140 Reason has, in theory, replaced the backward and outdated notions of cultural tradition and religious taboo.
00:01:47.900 The individual, freed from the artificial constraints of ancient moral codes,
00:01:52.040 can choose for himself what activities are worthy of his time and deserving of his veneration.
00:01:56.840 The government, and its related social institutions, are to have no preference for one particular moral vision.
00:02:03.680 Instead, the state's role is to act as a neutral arbiter,
00:02:06.960 facilitating market transactions by enforcing only the most minimal necessary restraints
00:02:11.520 like mutually agreed-upon contracts between two parties.
00:02:15.680 With so many differing viewpoints on what constitutes the good,
00:02:19.620 the rational individual's consent becomes the only standard by which the state,
00:02:23.340 and therefore society at large, can judge the moral validity of the action.
00:02:28.060 This argument works particularly well on conservatives because they are predisposed
00:02:32.480 to the idea of smaller government and market-based solutions.
00:02:36.240 While your average Republican voters may not agree that religious morality or cultural tradition is outdated,
00:02:42.280 they do like the idea of neutral government,
00:02:44.660 whose primary role is to serve as a night watchman,
00:02:47.860 enforcing only the bare minimum of legal norms that facilitate the functions of the market.
00:02:52.300 In this conception, the church and the personal religious practice of the faithful
00:02:56.820 should be sufficient to perpetuate the continuation of moral tradition.
00:03:01.060 Many conservatives and libertarians hold to the idea that religion and its values
00:03:05.260 belong in a completely separate sphere, which should have little to no impact on the state.
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00:03:40.580 They seem willfully oblivious to the difficult truth that people will always look to authority
00:03:45.180 for moral guidance, and will inevitably judge that which is permitted by the state as morally acceptable.
00:03:51.160 It's this ideological slavery to the notion of the morally neutral state and marketplace,
00:03:55.960 this assent to the primacy of consent-based morality that drove conservatives to cheer on multinational corporations,
00:04:03.420 even as they worked to destroy the family, push critical race theory, and champion radical gender ideology. 1.00
00:04:09.740 Progressives, on the other hand, find this position compelling because it allows them to dismantle
00:04:14.060 the oppressive Christian patriarchy they so thoroughly loathe and replace it with their own moral vision.
00:04:20.500 Unlike conservatives, progressives are fully aware that the norms perpetuated by social institutions
00:04:25.800 drive culture and have no qualms about using the power of government.
00:04:30.480 When Christian morality played a more central role in the identity of the nation,
00:04:34.440 directly attacking the tradition generated poor optics.
00:04:37.720 An emphasis on individual choice, a free market, and institutional neutrality, however,
00:04:43.300 was much easier to sell to the general public.
00:04:46.220 Progressives may complain about the evils of corporate America or the free market,
00:04:50.640 but they're more than happy to use them to dismantle cultural norms that they oppose.
00:04:54.680 That's why the left can simultaneously allege that a college student can't meaningfully consent to a student loan,
00:05:00.840 but that a child can consent to a sex change operation.
00:05:04.260 Power is the primary goal of the left, and ideological consistency is subordinate to its acquisition.
00:05:10.460 Consent-based morality and its consequences have been a disaster for America and the wider Western world.
00:05:16.120 It serves as a civilizational acid, dissolving all traditional bonds and duties,
00:05:21.460 leaving the individual isolated and vulnerable to manipulation by more organized and malevolent forces.
00:05:27.480 When consent is the only moral arbiter, there is no difference between a faithful wife joining herself to a husband and starting a family, 0.94
00:05:34.700 and a sex worker selling herself to a celebrity who will feed her drugs in order to simulate unconscious rape.
00:05:40.560 Countless women have been convinced that the virtual prostitution of OnlyFans is just as or even more dignified than a traditional marriage,
00:05:49.340 and because they are consenting adults in the marketplace, conservatives have little to say on the matter.
00:05:54.900 The argument that two consenting adults should be able to engage in whatever behavior they wish is always the starting point, but never the end.
00:06:02.380 A disturbing number of progressive thought leaders in the areas of feminism and queer theory,
00:06:07.720 like Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, advocated for the lowering of the age of sexual consent or even its complete abolition.
00:06:15.420 Even as we speak, leftists are attempting to rehabilitate pedophiles under the term minor-attracted persons,
00:06:21.600 in preparation for their inevitable push toward the legalization of the practice.
00:06:25.840 If you find that charge hyperbolic, simply consider the path the left have traveled
00:06:30.040 when it comes to the issue of transition surgery for minors.
00:06:33.680 The same chattering class who mocked concerned mothers who fought against men being allowed into the women's bathroom in Target
00:06:39.900 now actively work to cover up the rape of girls by male students who have declared themselves transsexual.
00:06:45.980 The progressive argument has gone from
00:06:47.780 no minors are getting transition surgery to
00:06:50.140 okay, some minors can consent to transition surgery to
00:06:53.640 minors need transition surgery because affirming care saves lives,
00:06:57.540 all in the span of just two years.
00:07:00.040 Puberty blockers are presented as a harmless and reversible choice to which elementary school students can consent.
00:07:06.000 And if eight-year-olds can consent to possible chemical castration,
00:07:09.400 it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what other activities progressives will determine children can voluntarily participate in.
00:07:15.680 Courts are already using the notion that children can consent to gender transition to remove them from the authority of parents who disagree.
00:07:23.640 Declaring a child an autonomous individual capable of consent removes the child from the protective authority of his parents
00:07:29.960 and leaves him vulnerable to whatever predations nefarious actors can justify through the logic of the marketplace.
00:07:35.580 Consent is an often necessary but never sufficient condition for determining the morality of an act.
00:07:42.420 Whether we like to admit it or not, each of us exists under authority, both temporal and eternal.
00:07:48.320 Everyone submits to something, be it God, those who master us through the dollar, or the depravity of being controlled by our own weakness and desire.
00:07:57.680 If we don't acknowledge the moral authority of the eternal, we'll make ourselves vulnerable to the predations of worldly powers masquerading as facilitators of our own free choice.
00:08:06.920 Our culture must look beyond the thin veneer of consent that facilitates the victimization of the most vulnerable in our society before that justifying ideology reaches its logical conclusion.
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