Misnomer exposed: “Violation of consent”

How can I go against your permission for something to happen? If you give me permission to do something, how can I violate that? Can you disobey somebody's permission? How?

Defining Terms

Violation: to go against or refuse to obey a law, an agreement, etc.

Consent: to agree or give permission for something to happen or be done

Non-consent: to not give permission for something to happen or be done; the action or fact of withholding consent;

Literal “Violations of Consent”

• Not selling an item to somebody after agreeing to sell it to them.
• Not taking somebody's car after acquiring permission to take it.
• Not having sex with your significant other after they agree to have sex.
• Not walking through somebody's backyard after they have given permission.
• Not having a sleep over after your parents have given you permission to.

Context:

• If you were to go to a yard-sale and find an item that you wanted to buy, and the person agreed to your offer, how would they go against the agreement? By changing their mind and not selling it?
• If I were to ask you if I could take your car, and you agreed, how could I violate that agreement? By not taking your car?
• If you were to ask your significant other if they wanted to have sex, and they said yes, what would you need to do in order to violate their consent to have sex? By abstaining from sex that day?
• If somebody gives you their permission to do something, like the ability to walk through their backyard instead of having to walk all the way around it, then how would you violate the permission? By not walking through their backyard?
• If a kid asks their parents for permission to have a sleep over that night, and they say yes, how would they go against their parent's permission to let them have a sleep over? By not having a sleep over?

Do you see how these are not actual offenses?

Misnomer corrected

What do people actually mean when they say that something was a “Violation of consent”?

They mean that their non-consent was violated. They mean that somebody went against their self owner-ship and or property rights without their permission, or against their withheld consent.

Literal violations of Non-consent.

• Taking somebody's money for an item without giving them the item. (Stealing)
• Taking somebody's car without permission, or not returning it after asking to borrow it. (Stealing)
• Forcing somebody to have sex with you. (Rape)
• Walking on somebody's lawn without their permission. (Trespass)
• Having a sleep over without your parents permission, or against it. (Deceit / Fraud)

Context:

• If you went to a yard-sale and made an agreement to buy something, but the person kept your money and wouldn't give you the item, then they are violating your non-consent for taking your money without your permission.
• If I asked you if I could take your car and you said no, but I took it anyway, then that would be stealing, and a violation of your explicit non-consent.
  -If you asked your significant other if they wanted to have sex, and they said no, but then you force yourself on to them, then that would be rape, and a violation of their explicit non-consent.
• If you don't' ask somebody for permission to walk through their backyard, then their permission was not given, which means that if you walk through their backyard then you are violating their non-consent.
• If a kid has the rule to ask permission to have a sleep over, but they have a sleep over anyway, then that is fraud, and it is a violation of the parent's non-consent.
  

  

  
  

  How to identify a violation of non-consent

If you do something that challenges somebody's self-ownership and or property rights when permission is not given, and consent is not implied, then it is a violation of non-consent.

If you do something that challenges somebody's self-ownership and or property rights when permission is denied, then consent is not implied, which makes it a violation of non-consent.

If you do something to somebody that goes against their self owner-ship and or property rights, without their permission, or against their withheld consent, then that is a violation of non-consent.