I think it is necessary to have some limitations to avoid people being pressured or coerced into ‘consenting’ to things they really shouldn’t. Because otherwise you’re going to get scenarios where it’s rather dubious to imagine someone really sincerely consented to getting killed.
Consider something like Squid Game. Every participant joined the games voluntarily, at least on paper. They’re even given the opportunity to leave, only for many of them to come back because their lives in poverty are that bad, and they have families who need the money, need it so badly that they’ll take such an extreme risk. So is that consent? Should that be a legal form of dueling? Or is the entire message of the show that it very much shouldn’t be?
i think the message there is society and capitalism are fucking evil. they put those people in those terrible situations and then took advantage of their desperation. obviously the answer is no, they were coerced by a callous system that took everything from them right up to the end.
I think it is necessary to have some limitations to avoid people being pressured or coerced into ‘consenting’ to things they really shouldn’t. Because otherwise you’re going to get scenarios where it’s rather dubious to imagine someone really sincerely consented to getting killed.
Consider something like Squid Game. Every participant joined the games voluntarily, at least on paper. They’re even given the opportunity to leave, only for many of them to come back because their lives in poverty are that bad, and they have families who need the money, need it so badly that they’ll take such an extreme risk. So is that consent? Should that be a legal form of dueling? Or is the entire message of the show that it very much shouldn’t be?
i think the message there is society and capitalism are fucking evil. they put those people in those terrible situations and then took advantage of their desperation. obviously the answer is no, they were coerced by a callous system that took everything from them right up to the end.
That’s precisely it though, we do live in a society, and as long as that’s the case, society needs some guardrails against abuse.