You are obliged to stop. After you do you might want to remind her about the implants, and give her a chance to tell you that she's actually an exception, or that she was just kidding.
This is because the moral choice is always to respect the other person, and to assume that their knowledge of their wishes is, being first-hand, more reliable than anyone else's.
assume that their knowledge of their wishes is, being first-hand, more reliable than anyone else's
If you want to draw moral conclusions from this particular factual claim, you're in trouble, because in my thought experiment you _know_ this claim is false. Have another go at it?
You don't know it. You know there's a vanishingly small chance that it may be true. You also know that human beings are motivated by more than their wishes. For instance her "no" might mean "even though I want you more than anything in the world I prefer to stay faithful to my paralytic husband" or "I want you badly, but I'm a nun", or even "I want you so much, and if I didn't have AIDS we'd be in bed right now".
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:43 am (UTC)This is because the moral choice is always to respect the other person, and to assume that their knowledge of their wishes is, being first-hand, more reliable than anyone else's.
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Date: 2009-11-25 10:47 am (UTC)If you want to draw moral conclusions from this particular factual claim, you're in trouble, because in my thought experiment you _know_ this claim is false. Have another go at it?
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Date: 2009-11-25 02:55 pm (UTC)