Should incest be legal?

[Zottistan]

Except that that evidence isn't relevant to modern society.

Were they not human? Were the Royals truly deities?

No, they were human. They were humans who existed in circumstances that no longer exist.

[Tunasai]

Thats disgusting, no, just no

I don't care how bad you want it but having sex with a family member is so disgusting and wrong it should remain illegal forever. Same goes for bestiality

[Punton]

This is definitely a red topic so there's going to be some strong opinions here. To each their own.

[Zimmer Twins]

I say as long as it's done in the privacy of a house its fine.

[Rhodesiya]

I am fine with same-sex incest relationships since there is no risk of defective children coming out of them.

[Scandza]

It shouldn't be legalized, but it shouldn't be illegal per se. I find it disgusting, but that is just how I feel about the subject. Especially when it's a father abusing his daughters, which I find extremely horrifying.

[Wonder bread Inc]

Sure; if you want birth defects go right ahead...

[Great Nepal]

Thats disgusting, no, just no

I don't care how bad you want it but having sex with a family member is so disgusting and wrong it should remain illegal forever. Same goes for bestiality

I find you disgusting; so you should be banned.
Same logic.

[Tunasai]

I say as long as it's done in the privacy of a house its fine.

Its not like sex in general is a public thing you know?

[Gravlen]

The OP seems to be worried about some kind of "floodgate" effect. I don't see that happening.

Without data, I can make no suppositions. People used to think that intermarriage would cause "Hell on Earth^TM", and we had no real data to disprove the notion. I tend towards rational evidence based arguments for or against things, and in this case the best evidence we have is European Royalty.

Incest between consenting adults is not prohibited in, among others, France, Belgium, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Israel, India, and Turkey.

I don't see any "Hell on Earth" stemming from those countries on these grounds.

[The Emerald Dawn]

Were they not human? Were the Royals truly deities?

No, they were human. They were humans who existed in circumstances that no longer exist.

Right. The children they had, and the issues those children faced are completely different, because those children are not human. Or something.

[Great Nepal]

No, they were human. They were humans who existed in circumstances that no longer exist.

Right. The children they had, and the issues those children faced are completely different, because those children are not human. Or something.

Of course they aren't.
They are royalty; thus by definition lizards.

[Tunasai]

Thats disgusting, no, just no

I don't care how bad you want it but having sex with a family member is so disgusting and wrong it should remain illegal forever. Same goes for bestiality

I find you disgusting; so you should be banned.
Same logic.

Thats discrimination (making incest illegal isn't as it doesn't deal with race, just immoral acts, like murder), now if I said I was part of an ethnic group that wasn't white, this would really backfire on you

Fine, go participate in incest sex, when your children are all defective and your in jail, you will have gotten what you deserve.

[Tunasai]

I am fine with same-sex incest relationships since there is no risk of defective children coming out of them.

This statement is probably driving Evangelical social conservatives up-the-wall

[The Holy Twig]

I have no problem with incestuous relations, so long as both of the participants are consenting adults. I'll call it disgusting, look away, and very probably shudder out of my skin, but who am I to tell Oedipus what he can/can't do with another consenting adult?

To say that it incest should be criminal would be hypocritical of me. Myself being a libertarian, I can't tell someone that they're not allowed to do something that doesn't harm anyone just because it disgusts me.

[Scandza]

I find you disgusting; so you should be banned.
Same logic.

Thats discrimination [...]

Bullshit. Just because someone doesn't like you it is discrimination? Show me, then, were he has discriminated against you by pointing the flaws in your logic.

[Tlaceceyaya]

Yes. Sure, there are problems that come with having incestuous children, but then, should we also ban people with inheritable diseases from having children?

[Chinamerica]

Yea, no.
What ever two consenting organisms do is their business.
This whole nonsense about genetic disease is nonsense firstly because we don't ban marriage between two people with faulty DNA that increase chances of disease (or else human race would go extinct quite fast) and secondly because it is over hyped.

In the end, it comes down to "I find it icky".

You didn't get As in science, did you?

[Great Nepal]

I find you disgusting; so you should be banned.
Same logic.

Thats discrimination, now if I said I was part of an ethnic group that wasn't white, this would really backfire on you

Mind explaining how what I said is in any way different logically to what you said.
You find incest disgusting so it should be banned.
I find you disgusting so you should be banned.

Fine, go participate in incest sex,

No thanks.

when your children are all defective.

With exception of parent-child or sibling-sibling relation: chances of genetic disease on offspring is 4.4%.

[Of the Quendi]

No, they were human. They were humans who existed in circumstances that no longer exist.

Right. The children they had, and the issues those children faced are completely different, because those children are not human. Or something.

Because there is no reason to believe that legalizing incest today would lead to generations of interbreeding. Incest is legal in many jurisdictions and it doesn't seem a problem. Pointing out a highly specific group from a historic period of a particular class and calling it evidence of anything is laughable.

[Tunasai]

Thats discrimination [...]

Bullshit. Just because someone doesn't like you it is discrimination? Show me, then, were he has discriminated against you by pointing the flaws in your logic.

If you were smart you would see he said "I find you disgusting; so you should be banned"

The quoted statement is targetted specifically at "banning" me which is discrimination. Taking all logic from his comparison

[Grand Britannia]

Yes, it should totally be legal.

[Scandza]

Bullshit. Just because someone doesn't like you it is discrimination? Show me, then, were he has discriminated against you by pointing the flaws in your logic.

If you were smart you would see he said "I find you disgusting; so you should be banned"

It was copying what you stated to point out where your logic failed. Attack the post, not the poster.

The quoted statement is targetted specifically at "banning" me which is discrimination. Taking all logic from his comparison

And you're discriminating against those who would participate in incest.

[Great Nepal]

Yea, no.
What ever two consenting organisms do is their business.
This whole nonsense about genetic disease is nonsense firstly because we don't ban marriage between two people with faulty DNA that increase chances of disease (or else human race would go extinct quite fast) and secondly because it is over hyped.

In the end, it comes down to "I find it icky".

You didn't get As in science, did you?

I did and also in English.
Thus, I can read study that states that excess mortality at the first cousin level was 4.4%.

[Norstal]

People are naturally averse to incest. Legislating against incest is like legislating that everyone needs to eat three meals a day.