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- Title
Sex crimes and misdemeanours.
- Authors
Brown, Campbell
- Abstract
How wrong is it to deceive a person into having sex with you? The common view seems to be that this depends on the nature of the deception. If it involves something very important, such as your identity, then the wrong done is very serious. But if it involves something more trivial, such as your natural hair colour, then the wrong seems less great. Tom Dougherty rejects this view. He argues that sexual deception is always seriously wrong. In this paper, I present a response to Doughterty's argument. I propose an analysis of the wrongness in deception according to which acts of deception, in sexual relations and elsewhere, may differ in their degree of wrongness, and some may not be seriously wrong.
- Subjects
SEX crimes; DECEPTION; HUMAN hair color; RIGHT &; wrong; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2020, Vol 177, Issue 5, p1363
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-019-01257-5