Thread:Sugilita/@comment-3121860-20190929000357

Gilgameshkun said this

Bestiality? Seriously? That applies to sentient beings who can consent when paired with non-sentient beings who cannot consent. Once a being has sentience and maturity, they can ethically consent to a relationship with any other being who also has sentience and maturity. If you respect the idea of a sentient mutant animal being a person, then you also respect their freedom to form relationships with other people. It's not complicated to imagine that fictional characters deserve the same basic rights and freedoms as people in their fictional world that real people deserve in the real world. And various writers for various continuities of TMNT have occasionally driven home the point that differences between species mean nothing where relationships between people are concerned, and that indeed there's nothing necessarily more or less special about being human than being any other species.



(Mirage continuity.) When Leonardo had a lengthy vision of a different life where he was a samurai in feudal Japan with a human wife and they had a daughter together, Leo was also aware that everyone around him saw him as a "kappa," yet Leo's wife reassured her husband, "you are as you always have been."



As the vision carried on and he had to live his life within it, he found not only the husband within himself, but the father within himself as well, which was evident when he stopped to look after his daughter Yumi. With words like "there is nothing to forgive," you could see a bit of his own father reflected in him as well.



(Archie continuity.) April and Chu Hsi once shared a romance, and they could be sweet for each other even when he was in dragon form.



(IDW continuity.) The first time Splinter met his wife Tang Shen after reincarnating as a rat, he thought his form was unsuitable for her, but it did not matter—Splinter was Shen's husband, and Shen was Splinter's wife, and nothing else mattered.

Now, if what you mean to say is, "oh, I don't think they are attractive," or, "no, that is not someone I would want to date," then that's more of the kind of preference you would see on dating profiles. Or if you say, "I don't want to ship them," then that reflects your preferences in fan art and fan fiction. But when you morally object to perfectly capable sentient beings being together because of their biological differences, then you are effectively suggesting that they cannot be equal, or that it can be permissible to prevent them from being together for that reason. I should hope you can see why those would be very bad, very unfortunate things to imply." 