Overusedname said:
I'll compare this to another issue: You know how homosexuality has been proven by all non-religously funded science to be harmless? And that kids from families with gay people or gay adoptive parents tend to be very happy and healthy? And there are just (adjusted for proportion) just as many long lasting monogamous gay relationships as heterosexual ones. The gays are accepted cause science and empathy make it clear they're A-okay. If they have problems, it's not because they're gay.
Incest doesn't have that kind of track record. Biologically and psychologically there seems to be real harm.
A few decades ago, homosexuality also had a pretty bad track record, simply because most gays were in the closet, so man of the ones who got outed were the ones caught with their pants down, often while raping someone, thus enforcing the stereotype that gays are depraved pedophiles, and generally sex-obsessed people who would fuck anything that moves.
Maybe the same is the case with incest. It's such a big taboo, that even if an average person doesn't feel the westermarck effect as strongly as others, they would rather deny getting turned on by family members, or at least do it secretly, so we don't see them having well-adjusted incestous relationships, and the only ones that don't follow that, are the ones with abnormally strong sex drives, or otherwise unwilling the follow cultural norms.
Sparrow said:
That kid is going to get genetically screwed because you took it upon yourself to screw your genetics
What's your stance on allowing people with genetic disorders to reproduce?
