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Originally Posted by Bifta
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Whether I would or not is my own business. Whether I am attracted to them or not is my business. What I do about it is *nobody's* business but mine and my parents if it's between two consenting adults and not done for procreation.
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Why do you consider it a "cop out"? What business is someone's private life to anyone else if nobody is hurt (*unconsentingly*!)?
However to try to answer your question on a strictly impartial basis in a discussion of the simple issues, I do not consider *any* sexual relationship between consenting adults to be "wrong".
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What if I was a Roman Catholic and wanted to go out with a Protestant. How many people do you know who would *also* find that stomach turning?
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Absolutely none, sorry.
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I admit that my knowledge of the situation in (Northern) Ireland is, of course, entirely based on "hearsay" and what has been shown on TV (which may not completely accurately represent the actual situation), but I have to say that I consider this rather surprising, although pleasing.
But, on a general level, would you not agree that there are some who *would* consider such a relationship to be, at the least, "unacceptable"?
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Or what if I was white and wanted to go out with a black girl? Or what if I wanted to go out with another man?
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Again, I personally don't know anyone that would find that sickening,
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Yet, again, would you not agree that there are some who would?
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however, if I were to ask everyone one I meet if they thought it was ok for someone to give their own mum a stuffing, I'm willing to bet that nearly if not all of them would answer no.
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I'm sure that's the case. But I am also sure that that would be an "automatic" reaction based on a "knee-jerk" response. I don't think many of them would (or could) even consider such a question in an objective or rational manner.
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somehow, we have managed to be grown up enough about such things that we can get over our knee-jerk responses that it's automatically "wrong" if we try hard enough to open our minds.
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Oh I see, if we don't find incest acceptable then we're immature, I don't want to get over my reaction to it, I'm sorry if I'm not as mature as you because I find such an act depraved.
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Yet again, however, I have to point out that inter-religious, inter-racial or same gender relationships have equally been considered to be equally as "depraved".
There was no rational or logical reason for such opinions, merely that they were "unacceptable" or "against gods law" or "revolting". In the same way I have yet to see any rational or logical reason for an objection to "incestuous" relationships that do not involve procreation.