this is our future and it is coming for us. with a pacifier.

I know very well this is for cheap laughs, but I am cheap and I laughed.

Bestiality Law? Florida Takes Another Shot At Passing Bill

As everyone who has ever reported this story will tell you, "Florida is one of only a dozen or so states that don't have a law against bestiality on the books." So, Democratic State Senator Nan Rich is taking her second shot at getting a law passed that would criminalize this sort of thing. This past Monday, the State Senate, by unanimous vote, passed a law that would make this sort of thing "a first-degree misdemeanor... with a penalty of up to a year in jail." It now goes to the State House, where a similar measure spurred by Rich and passed by the Florida State Senate last year failed to pass, despite the fact that it was pretty clear about how it was about people in Florida copulating with dogs and goats and whatnot

I'll be honest. This is not a law I would think anyone would really like, need to debate that much. Should you or should you not have sex with Fluffy the Hamster or Polly the Pig? That is not what I'd call a difficult question, okay?

Via meret: 21-Foot-Tall Robot Baby To Defend People's Republic - exactly what it says.

From comments: It has been three years since the descent of Glorious-
Heavensent-Infant-Who-Walks-In-Grace. Three years since the Eyes, ever-watching. We creep between its soft fleshy toes and pray, and when prayer is not enough we weep. For the People's Republic is no more. We are the Infant-Ruled and the Infant-Born, and we live in the shadow of the Eyes, ever-watching.

I am not saying this is how skynet started; skynet isn't this scary. I don't even want to know what happens to small villages if diapers aren't changed in time.

At Last, A Family Movie About Children Going to Hell which the only reason I am posting this, besides the sheer curiosity about Lizzie Borden teaching Home Economics, is a comment that yet again wonders why kids just can't read like, the fantasy classics made famous by Lord of The Rings and Dante's Inferno and why create dumbed-down versions?

My argument: because classics are classics because they are old and stylistically sometimes pretty goddamn boring.

Long version is like, five pages long and I removed it because apparently, I am surprisingly adamant on like, why literacy is not the same as reading and teaching one does not bestow understanding the second with an intersection into classism in literature, which is just kind of weirdly unsettling to read now. With anecdotes, even.

I will leave with this--kid's version of Moby Dick? Not better than the long version, but so much shorter.

Comments

Re: Bestiality should not be illegal.

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Murder, theft, lying are not personal morality; they're considered--in some circles--universal basics of existence. But I'm not going to argue abstract philosophy; I'm going argue what is actually happening, which is the rape of a living, breathing creature.

When we hunt, we do it for food, though the current abomination that is the meat industry is a different thing entirely. We fulfill our basics for survival, and when we use the animals skins we are again, fulfilling a need to not die in the snow, at least as of as few as one hundred years ago here and still a current concern for people not living in developed countries. We fulfill a survival need, not want, and like people have the right to self-defense for our own survival, we can kill animals for food on the same idea; we are allowed to hold our survival superior to another creature's. Even another human's in some instances. This is where the will to power is fairly acceptable; if we do not eat it, it will eat us, very animal kingdom rules.

Raping Fluffy is not a basic survival instinct. It's taking advantage of a creature that is not and cannot be our equal by nature of it's position in the hierarchy on this planet, that cannot think as we do, cannot communicate as we do, and cannot give consent.

Harm is not only relative or personal though it can be both; it is absolute. If I pass out at a party and a guy gently fucks me wearing a condom, I didn't consent; harm was done. If a orderly at a hospital fucks a patient in a vegetative state, they didn't consent; harm was done. If a doctor makes one of his mentally disabled give him a blowjob, and even if she agreed, she cannot consent; harm was done. If a guy goes home and fucks his dalmation before bed, it didn't consent; harm was done. Harm is defined in this case by forcing sex on a being who cannot give consent.

The health concerns, aside from that, are legitimate issues and another thing entirely, but cross-straining STDs to spread across human and animal populations creating pandemics of things we don't have cures for is kind of the nightmare scenario, and since we've already had STDs mutate between humans and animals, it's not only perfectly possible but likely we'll get something we can't fix.