In other words, why didn’t the story mention its (wealthy, permissive, libertarian) society having other arrangements in such a contentious matter—including, with statistical near-certainty, one of the half-dosen characters on the bridge of the Impossible Possible World?
It was such a contentious issue centuries (if I’m reading properly) ago, when ancients were still numerous enough to hold a lot of political power and the culture was different enough that Akon can’t even wrap his head around the question. That’s plenty of time for cultural drift to pull everyone together, especially if libertarianism remains widespread as the world gets more and more upbeat, especially if anti-rapers are enough part of the mainstream culture to “statistically-near-certainly” have a seat on the Impossible Possible World.
It’s not framed as an irreconcilable ideological difference (to the extent those exist at all in the setting). The ancients were against it because they remembered it being something basically objectively horrible, and that became more and more outdated as the world became nicer.
It was such a contentious issue centuries (if I’m reading properly) ago, when ancients were still numerous enough to hold a lot of political power and the culture was different enough that Akon can’t even wrap his head around the question. That’s plenty of time for cultural drift to pull everyone together, especially if libertarianism remains widespread as the world gets more and more upbeat, especially if anti-rapers are enough part of the mainstream culture to “statistically-near-certainly” have a seat on the Impossible Possible World.
It’s not framed as an irreconcilable ideological difference (to the extent those exist at all in the setting). The ancients were against it because they remembered it being something basically objectively horrible, and that became more and more outdated as the world became nicer.