rageoftyrael
Veritas
Seriously! Your arguments are ridiculous! Neo-logic, your best argument so far has basically been about how the children of incestuous sex have a higher chance of defects. This has been deflected in several ways.
1. Having children is usually not even a desire, and can easily be avoided, in these modern times. And even if they do want children, so what? Considering the first thing it seems that most people think of is birth defects, if they choose to have children, they will be aware of those chances, and presumably accept them. We are not an endangered species, we do NOT need to try and control who a very, very small percentage of the population have sex with.
2. That's right, i'm tired of the fear mongering. There are billions of us, and you guys seriously want to sit here and talk about how incest is magically gonna cause our species to become weaker? The percentage of people who want to have sex with their relatives is pretty small. Of those, an even smaller percentage want to have children with each other. So, you wanna know why that argument doesn't work? Cause there are too many of us! We are too diverse.
As for your other so called arguments, it seems they can be lumped into two groups. 1. It's gross. 2. It can cause mental/psychological/spiritual damage.
So, to address number one. Who cares! I think it's gross but it doesn't mean it should be banned! As for number two, who cares! Even if we were to allow for the fact that consenting incestuous sex did somehow cause deleterious emotional effects, that's their problem, isn't it? It can cause deleterious emotional effects to have sex with an ex-girlfriend, but we haven't outlawed that, have we?
Incest should not be illegal anymore, and i'll tell you why. It's an outdated law. It doesn't serve any purpose to outlaw it anymore. The fear of children with potential birth defects can be ignored, cause either people can avoid having children, with relative ease in our modern times, or, unlike in the past, they are aware of the potential issues that can arise, so if they choose to have children anyway, it won't come as a surprise if the child has issues. As for supposed emotional issues, people should have the right to mess up their own lives as they see fit, and not have thought police try and protect them from themselves. As for the gross factor, well, that is really the least important aspect of all, isn't it? I think my parents having sex is gross, should i outlaw it?
And finally, to nip any further argument in the bud, rape, molestation, abuse and so forth, while can all be tied into incest, do not inherently have anything to do with incest. These are all bad in and of themselves, and the incest doesn't really matter, does it?
So, seriously guys, get over your yuck reflex, get over your thought police reflex, and realize that incest isn't that bad.
1. Having children is usually not even a desire, and can easily be avoided, in these modern times. And even if they do want children, so what? Considering the first thing it seems that most people think of is birth defects, if they choose to have children, they will be aware of those chances, and presumably accept them. We are not an endangered species, we do NOT need to try and control who a very, very small percentage of the population have sex with.
2. That's right, i'm tired of the fear mongering. There are billions of us, and you guys seriously want to sit here and talk about how incest is magically gonna cause our species to become weaker? The percentage of people who want to have sex with their relatives is pretty small. Of those, an even smaller percentage want to have children with each other. So, you wanna know why that argument doesn't work? Cause there are too many of us! We are too diverse.
As for your other so called arguments, it seems they can be lumped into two groups. 1. It's gross. 2. It can cause mental/psychological/spiritual damage.
So, to address number one. Who cares! I think it's gross but it doesn't mean it should be banned! As for number two, who cares! Even if we were to allow for the fact that consenting incestuous sex did somehow cause deleterious emotional effects, that's their problem, isn't it? It can cause deleterious emotional effects to have sex with an ex-girlfriend, but we haven't outlawed that, have we?
Incest should not be illegal anymore, and i'll tell you why. It's an outdated law. It doesn't serve any purpose to outlaw it anymore. The fear of children with potential birth defects can be ignored, cause either people can avoid having children, with relative ease in our modern times, or, unlike in the past, they are aware of the potential issues that can arise, so if they choose to have children anyway, it won't come as a surprise if the child has issues. As for supposed emotional issues, people should have the right to mess up their own lives as they see fit, and not have thought police try and protect them from themselves. As for the gross factor, well, that is really the least important aspect of all, isn't it? I think my parents having sex is gross, should i outlaw it?
And finally, to nip any further argument in the bud, rape, molestation, abuse and so forth, while can all be tied into incest, do not inherently have anything to do with incest. These are all bad in and of themselves, and the incest doesn't really matter, does it?
So, seriously guys, get over your yuck reflex, get over your thought police reflex, and realize that incest isn't that bad.
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