Droopy wrote:
If I consent to something that, as time passes, I see debases, degrades, dehumanizes, and minimizes my life and happiness, does the fact that I consented to enter into that practice or lifestyle somehow justify the practice of lifestyle as if the suffering and pain that are its effects were nothing more than coincidental phenomena, unconnected to the practice/lifestyle itself?
What you appear to be doing here is substituting the concept of "consent" for the concept of "morality" and I'm not at all sure that choice, per se, can justify any specific choice.
If you freely consent, without coercion, of your own volition, then your consent justifies *your* practice, regardless of outcome.
H.