dlowan wrote:NOT if they are consenting adults, surely?
These are rational life forms, of at least equal intelligence, I am assuming.
Well, that's an interesting philosophical issue we just waded into ... why do we consider bestiality wrong? Is it really only because of the consent issue, or are there other considerations?
And if the defining measure is to be "of at least equal intelligence", then there is a problem there straight away, for how likely is it that the aliens in question are of exactly the same level of intelligence as us? And if they are of a substantially
higher intelligence, shouldn't they stop themselves from, err, "cruising" us humans on the basis of the same measure? Or is there a sort of minimum level of intelligence above which everything goes? Defined by what - expression of consent? But if they would be of significantly higher intelligence, wouldn't they look upon the kind of consent we express and the way we express it in the same way as we look upon a cat's nuzzling or a dog's willing response to "go fetch the stick"?
Not the kind of discussion I was expecting to have about alien sex, but hey, those be some questions too eh!?