California has passed a bill that requires university campuses to implement affirmative consent teachings regarding sexual activity. This means students will need to practice confirmation before sex. Students should be required to ask for consent from each other because while one may answer yes or no, silence means neither until confirmed.
Many people are faced with situations where they are too scared to say no to the other person. This makes a difficult case when they have gone through the act and feel violated afterwards because they did not want it. Practicing affirmative consent means there is no confusion in how people are feeling.
We will be looking at the normative theories behind asking for consent when unsure whether or not the
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This an ethical relativism in many societies in the United States and Canada. This bill is trying to change the way sex is viewed on university campuses, where one of the highest rates of rape occur. By changing sex from a wrong thing to a right thing we are able to adjust to the existence of our Ethical Relativism.
We also know there is a strong ethical relativism around taking advantage of other humans, i.e. Rape. By looking at this we can determine that under no circumstances is sex moral if one party is not interested in it.
Kant believed that people could be rational and did not need god to create an understanding of what was right and wrong. He also believed that one did not need to look at the outcomes of an act, only the thought behind the actions.
We will look at affirmative consent through Kantian framework, where we can tell if someone is being moral or immoral. By using affirmative consent the parties involved in the sexual activity are meaning well in their actions. Not because the outcome is good but because it is good in its self to practice affirmative consent. This allows us to view whether or not that person is acting morally or