Consent, Chaos & The Collapse Of Campus Morality

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Andrew Urquhart is joined by Brendan Malone of LifeNet to discuss a disturbing university sexual assault trial (details deliberately left vague) and the gender-based groupthink now shaping public reactions to such cases. Rather than asking "what is true", Brendan Malone argues society has split into tribal camps, a symptom of decades of campuses tolerating—and even encouraging—hedonistic behaviour among students while pretending private character doesn't affect public life.

Malone unpacks how libertarian "consent-only" morality fails because it assumes a level playing field between men and women and ignores vulnerability created by drugs, alcohol and power imbalances. He argues true consent only makes sense within a Christian sexual ethic that recognises human dignity and calls men especially to safeguard others rather than seek gratification, warning that stripping out Christian morality while keeping only "consent" has left Western culture, like the Soviet experiment, refusing to admit its sexual revolution has failed ([lifenet.org.nz](https://lifenet.org.nz)).

 

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