Consent stops assault and murder, but it's not excellence in relationships. A marriage described as merely consensual sounds like a failure, not a success. The speaker argues we've set the bar dangerously low by treating consent as the highest standard.
One of you said consent, which is what people typically think the answer is. The opposite of sexual assault or murder is consent. However, consent is only— this is key— only halfway up the slope. Why? Because I said, what's the extreme opposite? It's not the extreme opposite. That's the bare minimum requirement. Imagine if I said to you, my marriage is so amazing, it's consensual, right? You'd sit there and go, what were your last relationships? That does not sound like a healthy standard. So it's not the opposite. It just means you can start up the positive. It's literally the bare minimum requirement. The problem is most of our world right now talks about consent like it's the standard of excellence, right? Which is too low a bar, way too low a bar.
