
no...? omegaverse is about people manoeuvring around a different dynamics. to find balance between biology and morality.
first of all, rape is rape, no matter what it is. heat or rut are conditions determined by the brain controlling the release of hormones and how the body responds to these hormones. it's appropriate to liken it to a state of intoxication, such as being drunk or high. and drunk or high people raping other people is still considered a crime, because many people have been drunk or high before, but not everyone rapes. it's not the condition to blame, it's the person.
so yeah, being affected by someone's heat is not a valid reason to excuse rape. i could go about how the human brain can be differed than animals with our ability to comprehend morality, therefore putting an inhibition in how we as humans act and interact with one another, but it'll be long and there are academic journals that would explain them better. the thing is, omegaverse, despite being fictional, is still set in a universe where humans have the same brains with the same capability of making a decision on what is right or wrong (assuming they are mentally capable).
of course, omegaverse is sort of a no man's land, so you can interpret it as you wish. i just choose to believe in the ability of humans to recognise good from bad. it's fictional, i get it, i'm not telling people to go to jail over reading some rapey yaoi manga. i just feel sad that there's this universe with so many untapped potential to discover, and people just reduce it as some cheap way to excuse rape.

Open to interpretation. These humans have a whole other physiology than ours. So your argument on the second paragraph doesn't hold for me. Cause you're talking about our human brains in our human bodies that don't work based on pheromone excretion.
That's what you like that's fine.
If you wanna write a thesis around the social possibilities of the world that's cool. But that's honestly not what you're gonna find in a yaoi manga for the most part.
I'm just saying, keep your expectations according to where we are, a 2d porn site.

i see it as quite a flawed world-building, but i guess some people just don't have the capability to comprehend such thought ¯_(ツ)_/¯
also thank you but i'll have to disagree. i've seen some yaoi did omegaverse justice, and i'm not gonna lower my standard just because other authors use omegaverse as an easy way to justify rape because they can't see a better way to develop romance between their characters
Y'all don't really look smart coming to an omegaverse and being like 'omg there's rape holy fuck'