Debate: Legalization of adult incest

[Jazzy]

Should incest between consenting adults be legal? (Please explain your answer)

 

[beowulf]

how close a relationship are you talking?

 

[~KAGE-008]

Incest is totally incorrect in my book. And no, it shouldn't in Costa Rica.

 

[Dee]

Ehhh...I mean, as long as they're of-age and consenting adults, who am I to say how they should live their life? Now, if they reproduce and cause any sort of mentally or physically disabled child because of the known potential consequences, that's a different story. I may not agree with incest, but it's not my problem unless someone is being forced into it or someone is being hurt against their will.

 

[WhoFlungpoo]

No, in fact. I could never look at a member of my family in that way!

There are plenty men and women to choose from in this world. The thought that people do makes me personally feel sick. Sorry.

 

[DrLeftover]

I see a definition is called for.

Incest
Sexual relations with near family member, usually blood relative whom one would not be legally permitted to marry. Prohibited by law in most jurisdictions and under many religious codes. Also, Fetish material related to the subject.
Most legal and religious codes specify which members of ones immediate family are covered by the prohibition. These usually include parents (and grand- etc.), aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, children, half-siblings, first cousins, and even sometimes second cousins. Others include non-blood kin such as step-relatives, cousins once-removed, and foster or adopted relatives. Most laws prohibiting marriage of relatives second cousin or beyond have been repealed although some religious doctrines may still apply. See: Sister-in-Law, Mother, and related. Also see: Caligula for a infamous example.

http://bruthadeep.com/f4/sexglossary.htm

 

[Corleone]

No. That's all I have to say on that topic.

 

[DirtRider]

Well you could have a situation like this one

Their wedding day should have been a joyous occasion, where the happy couple announced their undying love for one another to the world. Friends and family should have packed into the local church and photographers should have taken beautiful pictures for their local paper.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...plan-start-new-life-abroad.html#ixzz3XpHGqLJN

 

[seasidemike]

It's all relative

 

[Jazzy]

I don't think two logical minded adults would even choose incest as an available option. While centuries ago incest might have been the norm especially in royal families, there is no need for it today. There are plenty of people in the world for you to love that are not in your family. Incest also corrupts genes. Two people with similar genes biological should not be mating. If they do their children are subjected to physical, mental and genetic deformities, why would you purposely consent to a union in which any resulting offspring will be sick.

 

[DirtRider]

Well as per normal some people jus think about themselves and cannot credit about any spinoff from their actions and I suppose this is why you need laws to stop them in their actions