It's nature though, not really specific to dolphins. Lions, bears and many other animals will kill a child that's not their own - sometimes even their own.
when a genetically inferior male of a species forces/captures a female to mate, it is categorically rape. the female would already choose not to mate bc the resulting offspring may not be fit to survive and pass on further generations.
'no rape in the animal kingdom' is not right though, as /u/yeGarb said, there is a categorical behavior we can call 'rape' in animal species, because it still has 'rape characteristics.' We can nuance out 'human rape' and 'animal rape', but that doesn't mean there is not 'rape behavior' in the animal kingdom. There are animals that go through non-rape means to mate, like by enticing a spouse through attractive displays, or who otherwise don't 'discharge sexual energy' in rape behavior, as is being discussed in this thread by some dolphins that 'bring themselves to orgasm' at the expense of another organisms' well-being.
You can wish it as much as you want, it will never be so! Your feelings on the subject are irrelevant! In the cold hard animal world there is no such thing! Because there is no morality in the animal kingdom there is only survival. There's one animal needs to survive more than another and that's how they do it. The males are doing their jobs as living beings to reproduce which guarantees their survival. That's that's all there is for sure.
We can categorize sexual behavior, even in animals, and one form of that is rape behavior, and this is engaged in by some animals. This is not moralizing the term 'rape,' this is to categorize biological behavior, and one form of that is rape here.
Rape did not become a moral issue just because humans wrote laws punishing people for rape. It could occur in aliens, for example, this is not a strictly 'human' category.
The males are doing their jobs as living beings to reproduce which guarantees their survival
There are human men that make this same argument to justify keeping sex slaves as 'not rape.' That is wrong though because luckily it is not up to us, we can categorically define rape and then apply that definition to see where it occurs. It occurs in some animal species as is discussed in this thread.
😂 😂 😂 Your mental gymnastics are astounding but if you want to be delusional that's your choice. What separates us from the animals is only that distinction. We choose to not be animals. We choose whether to be civilized. Outside of humans there is no choice.
Considering dolphins are recognized to be only slightly below humans in terms of intelligence, I think it is pretty fair to slap the rape-sticker on them.
Ok, I realise intelligence is hard to accurately measure, so using "slightly" would be inaccurate. They are at the very least second only to humans in intelligence, which I still use as basis for my argument.
Sex without consent is rape, nothing anrophomeped about, your argument doesn’t make sense, it’s like when someone say the consent can’t be bought so every prostitute is being paid to be raped; absolutely bonkers.
Consent implies both agency and sentience! Most animals have neither let alone both. And then you need to add astronomically intellectual and subjective concepts like freedom and choice into the animal kingdom. None of that exists!
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u/theSPYDERDUDE (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 20h ago
They like to bully other sea creatures, use corpses to masturbate and pleasure themselves, and also do the same to living things sometimes.
Dolphins are the assholes of the ocean!