This entire article is hilarious

[Archon_Wing]

Rape?

There are both pragmatic and basic humanistic issues with rape.

The ancient original and pragmatic issue with rape was basically about child care. No man wanted his woman raped because he only wanted to raise his kids and society didnt want single women raped because there was no father to support the potential kids.
Essentially those issues still matter.
If we jump up to a humanistic perspective its an insult on a human to be condemed much like murder or slavery(2 points which humans dont apply to animals.).
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Well yea, practality and ideals do work hand in hand together. I would say practality forces people to think and reason about right and wrong. (Women are getting raped--> This is bad and should be prevented because of reasons stated above ---> This is also bad on another level.. because) There would be a hope that people would obey the law and not do these things. It would be enforced by punishment and isolation.

It might be another reason why I don't like the phrases "was not meant to be" or "not natural," because it could be argued that rape and other such things happen to be natural or is supposed to happen.

Are you asking whether I think the practical or humanistic concepts are more important? In the law, I would say practality makes the law, and the higher principles justify it. Certainly, we can't be insanely practical and amoral (ie. killing off people because they cost too much to feed) so we still have to moral aspect to prevent us from going overboard.