Assume That Dougherty Is Correct That People Have the Right

question 1088

Multiple Choice

Assume that Dougherty is correct that people have the right to decide down to the last detail what comes into sexual contact with their bodies. Which of the following could you infer from that claim?

• A) People have the right to decide exactly which articles of clothing they are wearing because people's clothing comes into contact with their bodies.
• B) The harm explanation cannot explain the serious wrongness of nonconsensual sex with an unconscious person or with someone by means of egregious deception.
• C) Someone's valid consent could be violated if he or she had an extremely idiosyncratic deal breaker such as not wanting to have sex with people whose birthdays are in April and another person born in April who didn't know this deal breaker had sex with him or her.
• D) Someone's valid consent could be violated if she agreed to have sex with person A and person B and wrongly thought during the sexual encounter that she was having sex with person B when she was having sex with person

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Definitions:

Objectivity

The principle of being unbiased and not influenced by personal feelings or prejudices in representing facts.