Scott,
If I were to subscribe to it....I would be absolved of all 'sin' or crimes because the 'victims' wanted to be victims. So how can you justify putting anyone in jail?
If I believed that other people that are in worse circumstances than I am in CHOOSE their circumstance then what right have I got to aid them? In fact if I use and abuse them I am being helpful....since it is in fact what they wanted. A step further down the road you lay out....If I abuse WORSE then I am hastening them on their fun journey. So dont' just rape....mutilate! I am doing what she wants.
Your philosophy seems too close to the patriarchal standard we have just pulled ourselves away from.
No, nothing to do with patriarchy here. You ask some very cogent questions that I still grapple with. If we will our destinies into being, should we never appeal to a sense of morality, seeing morality as a relative and unstable thing that doesn't even hold up in the mirror of Eternity? I don't think this is at all the most constructive approach we can take.
I think morality is here precisely so we can engage one another in a moral sense. Morality helps us choose who we want to be in a particular moment. And morality is measured, I think, by the degree of joy or suffering that we see around us. Something that causes the most pleasure to the most people, or alternatively something that causes the least harm to the least number of people, can be seen as Good. Conversely, something that does the most harm to the greatest number of people may be defined as Bad or Evil. By knowing the difference between Good and Evil, we are better able to craft our path, our destiny to a greater degree of nuance and refinement, just as the painter who can choose between this color and that color has a greater choice about what kind of picture she wants to create.
Should we never grieve? Should we never feel angry? Should we never seek to punish the transgressor and protect the victim? No, not at all. We
should feel our feelings...that's precisely why we have them. We are in this contextual field for a reason, and that is to experience...ALL of It. Experience sadness, loss, love, joy, anger, quiescence, resignation...the whole spectrum of human feeling. Yes, send someone to jail who transgresses your law...if they end up there, their Soul was calling them to that experience, just as your Soul is calling you into the experience of Jailer. But when the jail has crumbled to dust, along with the laws that put it up in the first place, remember that Prisoner and Jailer were merely roles that you played...they do not define Who You Really Are.
Do keep in mind that I am only expounding my own speculations here. I am not the repository of all the answers. But the philosophy I present here is one that I find both interesting and personally appealing. You are free to consider it and reject it as you see fit. But I wish to emphasize that this approach is not patriarchal in the least...I find the Judeo-Christian tradition, with its emphasis on sin and retribution, much more deserving of that appellation.