This entire article is hilarious

[Chaerophon]

"Cruelity" is a red herring aand you know it. I explained and so did others.

Haveing sex with an animal could be cruel but it doesnt have to be, that is unless you are going to take the jump and say animal domestication is wrong on the grounds its slavery.
Until you are ready to imbue animals with all the rights of humans the consent issue is a joke.
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I'll take a stab at it... no promise.

I don't believe that it is necessary for our moral/ethical perspectives on given issues to be 100% logically consistent. Normative consensus on the basis of sound reasons acceptable to all is all that ought to be required.

I find the notion of having sex with an animal (particularly if we think of less humane instances - for instance, with a dog, using rodents, etc) repugnant for a pair of reasons:

1. causing undue pain to other living creatures for reasons unrelated to their larger interests is cruel in a very real, physical way, and constitutes behaviour that most in society deem unacceptable for normative reasons that may, indeed, appear logically inconsistent. We don't let people beat their dogs for the same reason; despite the absence of absolute 'human' rights for such animals. Please note that this DOES count against inhumane methods of killing domesticated livestock, etc., but does not necessarily rule out that they may be used as food...

2. Such acts bring into question the willingness of such individuals to cause pain and suffering to humans, as they clearly lack a conditioned/innate(?) response that is common to the vast majority of the rest of society, and brings into question their ability to relate to the order that has been established through some limited form of achieved normative consensus (even if that consensus is limited to only the KINDS of behaviour that are unacceptable and not the exact reasons).

Perhaps you folks are putting a bit too much stock in the pure logic of the situation - morality is not an absolute, and right and wrong are human constructs, not logical 'discoveries'.