Bestiality Should be Legalized

Thank you for taking the time to write another rebuttal. Unfortunately, I have to disagree with you; playing the God card by no means ends the debate right there. I don't know what country you're from, nor do I care, but in America (i.e. the country this debate pertains to), we have a concept called "freedom of religion." You can't impose your religious beliefs on a group of people through law; everyone has a right to his or her own religion, and that's final. Saying, "You can't do such-and-such because my god disapproves of it" has no bearing on any debate anywhere (unless it's a debate specifically about god and religion), so please try not to bring it up again."There is a reason humans run society and not animals. We are separated from them. We have evolved to a higher class than animals."Yes, we do run society. Society, by definition, is a gathering of people. It would be weird if animals ruled over us, just like it would be weird to see a dude being the leader of a pack of lions (and banging the females) or being the leader of a school of fish (though that would be pretty hilarious). People have also managed to modify a lot of the earth to our liking. We also have control over a lot of animals, and we could probably kill them all if we wanted. And sure, we're quite a bit smarter--that's why we found ways to kill them in huge numbers, and why we're finally considering getting more use out of them before they become delicious bacon. In short: I'm not sure what the point of these sentences was.From here, though, I have even more trouble understanding your argument. You mention that we have a "moral code," but you fail to state how that moral code makes it okay for us to slaughter animals cruelly but not okay for us to have sex with them. You did point out God and the Bible telling us not to have sex with animals, but those are instructions from a higher being, not part of the "moral code" we developed as a species.You also point out that killing animals "allows us to live another day," which I already addressed in my opening argument; we don't have to kill animals. We do it because it brings us pleasure. Humans are more than capable of living without eating meat. However, I love bacon, and I won't give that up, even knowing full well that I could easily become a vegan and live just as long, if not longer, by eating more healthful foods. Hundreds of millions of people agree with me, which is why we kill billions of animals and eat their delicious meat. The point I made earlier was that if we're killing animals for pleasure, having sex with them would be for the same purpose at a lesser degree of cruelty (equal degree at worst), which you summarized but somehow entirely missed the point of and failed to refute. In fact, I would argue that eating animals is unhealthier than having sex with them. Sex has a ton of benefits for your health [1]. "Saying for lack of a better phrase "Let's have sex with animals" instead of killing them is like saying instead of killing inmates why don't we keep them in an empty cell till they die"I don't see the point of this statement either. We don't put people on death row because it brings us pleasure, nor do we do it to eat them and stay alive. We do it to punish them. Your statement is completely irrelevant, and in fact, we do keep them in an empty cell until they die in a lot of cases: not all states use the death penalty, and the morality of the death penalty is still being debated."Bestiality is basically animal rape…"Why yes, it is. And eating bacon is basically animal murder. Tasty, tasty murder that we will never give up as a society. Again, an irrelevant point, if there was one here to begin with. (The "consent" part of my previous argument was a joke, but I'll be careful not to make too many more of those, as I can see how they can be confusing in a debate.)"Would you take advantage of a mentally challenged person?"I've called the analogy police and they're on their way. Just kidding--but seriously, I don't understand why you're comparing animals that we eat with taking advantage of a mentally challenged person. People with special needs are no different from you or me, but pigs and cows inherently are, as you yourself pointed out earlier. No, I wouldn't take advantage of a mentally challenged person, but I also wouldn't hang a mentally challenged person upside down, slit his throat, cut off part of his butt and eat it, either. Your point is irrelevant, if not offensive (and coming from me, that's pretty bad)."While i agree slaughtering animals can be considered cruel it provides us with food while sex with animals provides nothing."Why so materialistic? You don't have to kill an animal and take its physical remains for it to be beneficial to human beings. Some animals provide love and companionship when alive, too, like my dog that died several years ago, but I guess you would argue that love isn't tangible and is therefore "nothing." Even with your shallow view of animals, though, as I mentioned earlier, sex does provide a LOT of benefits. Physically, the actions are no different between doing it with another human being and doing it with an animal, so all benefits apply. Again, check out [1] or just Google "benefits of sex." Trust me, there are a lot of things sex with animals can provide.To the voters/readers out there: Thank you for reading this debate. Even though he had more than enough chances, my opponent has addressed only my first of five points, and even then, has failed to rebut it adequately. I take this to mean that he only had an inadequately-stated problem with the cruelty element of my opening statement, and past that, he agrees with every other point I've made. In short, though we disagree on one issue (that I must repeat, he has not refuted), we agree on 80% of the other reasons, and therefore agree that it would therefore be beneficial to the U.S. to legalize bestiality.To my opponent: Thank you for joining me in this debate.One final comment: You can't spell "bestiality" without first spelling "best"!Source: [1] http://www.webmd.com...