Can people who proclaim an absolute right to bodily autonomy, the “it’s no one else’s business what someone does with their body” crowd, coherently object to rape? How? They reject at the outset the idea that another person being harmed/violated is enough to justify interference.
https://twitter.com/smashli1228/status/1493038229360099329
I’m entirely serious. If you hold that (1) people can do whatever they please with their body, and (2) no one has any right to interfere with this, (3) even when their doing what they want harms or violates or wrongs or even kills another—on what grounds could they oppose rape?
The rapist is obviously doing what he wants with his own body. I would have though (and do think) that his using his own body to violate another person is what makes it wrong, and justifies interference. But these people reject that idea. So can they object? Do they?
I do find the idea that "it is none of your business what someone does to your body, because he or she is autonomous and can do whatever he or she wants with his or her body, including anything he or she wants to do to your body" to be evilly absurd and absurdly evil.
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