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Which of the Following Best Captures Dougherty's Explanation of What

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Which of the following best captures Dougherty's explanation of what is required for the harm explanation to be a genuine alternative to the consent explanation?


A) The harm explanation must argue that the seriousness of the wrong both of sex by means of egregious deception and of sex with an unconscious person is explained by the harm suffered by the victim.
B) The harm explanation cannot endorse a rights-based approach to explain the serious wrongness of nonconsensual sex such as sex with an unconscious person or with someone by means of egregious deception.
C) The harm explanation must argue that the consent explanation is an incorrect explanation of the serious wrongness of nonconsensual sex because it cannot account for the harms to victims.
D) The harm explanation cannot consider violation of consent a harm since otherwise the harm explanation and the consent explanation would be consistent and the first would not be a genuine alternative position to the second.

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