Why? When a rape victim commits suicide, is that somehow worse than when someone who was dosed with drugs without their knowledge or consent commits suicide? E.g. Alan Turing, Frank Olson, etc.
> Why?
* People are dosed with medicine all the time without their consent, or rather with parental consent or others acting as guardians. Rape .. not so much.
* And visceral reasons that I acknowledge are not logical but are very real to me: rape is _the_ crime I loathe most of all.
I too think that the metaphor sucks, not because one would be worse than the other, but because I don't think they can be compared. One is mostly physical, partially emotional intrusion, the other is intellectual... They are both about the most shitty things that can happen. You can only hope that the drugs are powerful enough that you don't really remember what happened.
If you want to look at it qualitatively, I would argue that there are a wide variety of different types of rapes, and an equally wide variety of different types of forced drug consumption. So I'm not sure you can even compare within the same category.
But what I primarily meant when I said they were comparable is that one should approach them both from a similar normative ethical perspective.
The issue is that giving someone drugs without their knowledge or consent is akin to rape. Especially when you're talking about a drug that's fairly dangerous.