Background Pony #D409

Bestiality is honestly a fascinating topic in moral philosophy because it tugs at the threads at a major intersection between human and animal ethics and it's an area of moral philosophy that is fairly under examined.If you find bestiality wrong from a moral standpoint (and not an ethical or "slippery slope" point) you are going to need to justify it while keeping it consistent with the rest of your beliefs.So, many animals are routinely raised and slaughtered for their meat (including horses) and if you find the current slaughter of animals to be justifiable but bestially to always be unjustifiable, than it is pretty necessary for you to have a good reason why.And then, I'm not sure if you take the consent approach, but if you do, then sex between two (non-human) animals is still a problem as neither consented. This doesn't mean that either animal should be punished (as you would a moral agent) but it begs the question as to whether sex between animals of the same species should be allowed.And to make this even messier, also consider practices such as dog or cock fighting: how do/should we say it is wrong but yet allow for animals of the same species to mate, even quite forcefully?Anyways, I'm not trying to make the point that bestiality is always ok, however, I think its a vast oversight to say that bestially is always wrong and could never be done in an acceptable way.