rape doesn't violate any biological rules, only cultural rules. but the same can be said of all crimes.
many of the behaviors that are punishable in modern society occur naturally in the animal world. rape, murder, cannibalism, etc.
not sure about the idea that our cultural rules point to intelligence though. if we actually stopped and thought about things, we would base our moral values would on individual biological imperatives. "good" would be attributed to anything that promotes the propagation of an individual's genes, and "evil" would be attributed to anything that hinders it. in this system, monogamy and abstinence would be evil, and sexual promiscuity would be good...
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