Damnit, I'm away for a day and I miss all the fun. I don't know if it has been said before (lot of pages to check through, but i'll say it again just in case)
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Originally Posted by Graham
Ok, let's have a quick summary here:
1) There are some people who think that incest is wrong, full stop, not even when it involves consenting adults and is not for procreation.
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On the first point I have not seen *any* reasonable proof or logical argument to back up *why* it is wrong, just circular arguments of "it's wrong because it's incest and incest is wrong" and "it disgusts me and lots of others" which, whilst emotive, is not exactly a reasonable argument.
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The obvious point in my mind is the reason they made Incest illegal in the first place. I.e. If the woman was impregnated, then that child would run the very high risk of serious deformaties from recessive genes meeting. Now you could argue that way that what if you use contraception? Well, no, because no contraception is 100%. And then you could get the idea, what about if they agree to have an abortion, in case? Well, that leads to another moral minefield. Generally it is best to err on the side of caution, i'd think.
Second point about the morals. Morals are subjective opinions, and noone has the right answer, regardless of what it might be. There is no right answer.
And I'm not picking on you here Graham. Just happened to be the first post I came across relevant to what I wanted to say. I'm not attacking you or anything.