Should Incest between consenting adults be legal? -

AnOminous

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It's legal in Rhode Island, and civilization does not appear to have collapsed there, except maybe in Providence. Apparently, only actual marriage is illegal. If there have been any negative consequences of this, I'm unaware of them, but perhaps there have been nothing but horror stories. I haven't cared enough about the issue to look into it.
 

DuskEngine

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From a strictly ethical perspective sure why not.
Those relationships are unlikely to be very healthy, though. For obvious reasons.

EDIT: I look at it the same way I'd look at a relationship between an 18-year old and a 50-year old, or a relationship where one of the parties is an exceptional individual: not intrinsically bad, but definitely not great.
 

Watcher

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I admit the concept makes me and probably the vast majority of people uncomfortable but in the end all of the arguments against it boil down to "that's icky" and that just isn't good enough basis for forbidding something.
Incest is one those things, like pedophilia and beastiality, that not only potentially indicate a harmful mental illness but also can directly harm someone.

In the case of incest it can very easily lead to malformed children being born. There's also the case of people performing incest on mentally challenged members of their family. Incest can completely scar a person for life even if they consented to it upon retrospect.
Nope. It will open up the whole "keep it in the family" ideals that pre-Victorian families have and cause a buttfuck of problems in the long run.
No it wouldn't.

During the Victorian era and before that people had the thought that your worth as a person was determined by who you were born from. This is largely why in-breeding was a thing because people thought poorer people were inferior by their very nature. It's why royalty has always been determined through birth and not ability.

Nowadays we have science and genetics and can prove if you reproduce with someone in your family it leads to less genetic diversity. And this is very commonly known. If Incest was legalized today nobody would intentionally do it to avoid soiling their line with "bad blood".
 

autisticdragonkin

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Incest is one those things, like pedophilia and beastiality, that not only potentially indicate a harmful mental illness but also can directly harm someone.

In the case of incest it can very easily lead to malformed children being born. There's also the case of people performing incest on mentally challenged members of their family. Incest can completely scar a person for life even if they consented to it upon retrospect.

No it wouldn't.

During the Victorian era and before that people had the thought that your worth as a person was determined by who you were born from. This is largely why in-breeding was a thing because people thought poorer people were inferior by their very nature. It's why royalty has always been determined through birth and not ability.

Nowadays we have science and genetics and can prove if you reproduce with someone in your family it leads to less genetic diversity. And this is very commonly known. If Incest was legalized today nobody would intentionally do it to avoid soiling their line with "bad blood".

How did this obvious honeypot thread get so much serious discussion
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c-no

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Incest is one those things, like pedophilia and beastiality, that not only potentially indicate a harmful mental illness but also can directly harm someone.

In the case of incest it can very easily lead to malformed children being born. There's also the case of people performing incest on mentally challenged members of their family. Incest can completely scar a person for life even if they consented to it upon retrospect.
In regards to malformed children, the last Hapsburg is a good example of how incest can be bad in a practical sense, especially if one wanted their own offspring to go on.
 
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