Yes, rape exists in nature. So do murder, cannibalism, infanticide, and parasitism. Animals abandon their young, eat their rivals’ babies, and kill each other constantly. By your logic, humans shouldn’t condemn any of those things either, because “nature does it.” That’s not philosophy—that’s just the naturalistic fallacy.
Humans didn’t invent harm; we invented words to describe harm. Saying “rape is a human concept” is like saying “gravity is a human concept.” No—the word is human, the phenomenon is real.
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. It’s just excusing harmful behavior by pretending morality disappears when the character has supernatural powers.
And the “gods don’t follow human morals” argument isn’t the defense you think it is. Myths were written by humans, for humans, to reflect human societies and power structures.
Take Medusa and Poseidon. Poseidon assaulted Medusa in Athena’s temple, and instead of punishing the god, Athena punished Medusa. Modern readers don’t bring that story up to justify assault. They bring it up to highlight how ancient stories normalized power protecting itself while the victim was blamed.
That’s the entire point: power doesn’t erase wrongdoing—it exposes it.
So saying “he’s not human, so human morals don’t apply” isn’t a deep take. It’s just an excuse to ignore harm when the perpetrator is powerful enough. Changing the species, the title, or calling someone a god doesn’t magically turn coercion into consent.
And if your defense of a character relies on comparing them to animals that can’t understand consent, you’re not defending the character—you’re admitting they’re acting like something without moral awareness.
bro this is so incredibly ignorant. it’s people like you who cause us to continue to suffer under the patriarchy men and women alike. it’s why rape among male victims isn’t taken seriously. there’s no excuse for rape, so stop trying to excuse it. you clearly have some sort of kink, and are trying to hide behind twisted morality and philosophical reasoning. do us all a favor and stfu
also, do you think the animals that are most commonly raped, like female dolphins, baby otters and female mallard ducks are unaffected? because if you know anything about zoology or animals in general, you wouldn’t be spewing nonsense
There's no need to do mental gymnastics in your mind to justify why you like the story, just let other people dislike it and move on it's not that hard
I could never understand why people always foist HUMAN morals to everything.
Let me be clear. There IS rape in this story. No one is denying it. BUT. (Yes, there is a but.)
The concept of "rape" is a HUMAN one. We are the ones who labeled them as such. So why are y'all applying it to everything?
Just because it's "immoral and disgusting" to us doesn't mean it's the same for everything else. The ML in this story is a "god", he is so far removed from human society that he may as well be an alien.
Those so called "human morals" doesn't apply to those that aren't human. Why would you think an alien or "god" would follow human principles just because you're human?
We aren't the master of the universe. We're not even God's best creations. Bruh.
You don't need to go far for an example. Look at nature. So many animals just pounce on females and "mate" which is just rape to us humans. They didn't ask for permission, did they?
"Rape" is so prevalent in nature that a story of "true love" and "mate only once in their life" is so amazing that there are entire documentaries about them. Like swans.
Point is, "rape" is a HUMAN concept, so don't go raving about it to everything else that aren't "human". Y'all are too conceited.
Yes, there IS rape here. But a lot of people here understand that there are more nuance than just "he raped him".
In Taejoo's case, yes it was rape. And no, not even his redemption arc absolves him of his crime. Because Taejoo is HUMAN, who grew up in HUMAN society, with HUMAN morals. This ML is a different story. Literally.