incest is morally wrong because we as a group collectively decided it so. that is not to say that every group deems it unacceptable, and that is not to say that every individual within a group deems it unacceptable, but generally speaking incestuous acts have been frowned upon by the majority throughout modern history. "group" could be replaced with society, country, region, city, community, family, etc and this statement still holds true.
some factors as to whether or not a group deems something to be acceptable includes:
1.) the foundational values of the group at its conception (spiritually, morally, etc)
2.) whether or not consensus has shifted since foundation
3.) is the act necessary or justified to meet an end goal
4.) can cohesion be maintained while permitting the act at various capacities
consider how various acts which you at the moment consider "good" or "bad" is viewed in a real or fictional setting. anyone can come up with arguments to justify any action, but whether or not it is moral is not up to you.
People just saying this is amoral because they were taught by universal ethics and by most of the religions (which is ridiculous in case of Ch, since a lot of bible characters had incest relations).
Like, 100 years ago being engaged with your cousin were absolutely normal.
In terms of genetics and breeding this is wrong because of degeneration.
I see a problem with protected sex realtions between family. Imagine, you are same age siblings having fun and stuff, but you know you wont be able to be a couple because of genetic thing, this can cause a trouble with finding an actual parter. like if you both love each other in that way, you'll both will struggle with creating a family since you're in love with other person. And there is also a problem of jelaousy
He gets this. Absolutely fucked up minded people think about these things. We're also in 2020, not 1720 lmao. Society has evolved past the barbaric practice of incest.
Imagine bringing up this topic in school or at work. Great way to get everyone to hate you lmao.
Oh yeah. Why don't YOU tell us what you support Moop? We're not your puppets in the comments of your thread. Let's see your teaching experience put to use here.
What if the group is in the wrong? Homosexuality has been shunned by a majority for centuries, is this justified just because they formed a majority?
People can adopt if they want to form a family. Are you referring to a kind of jealousy that is unique to a situation like this? Please explain. I think most relationships have some form of jealousy in them.
who is making the judgement? how is that conclusion made? what is the relationship between the two groups? do the groups exist separately, or does one exists within the other? once you have an answer to these questions related to your hypothetical, please consider points 1-4 again.
also google "ethnocentrism"
some factors as to whether or not a group deems something to be acceptable includes:
1.) the foundational values of the group at its conception (spiritually, morally, etc)
2.) whether or not consensus has shifted since foundation
3.) is the act necessary or justified to meet an end goal
4.) can cohesion be maintained while permitting the act at various capacities
Ethnocentrism is used in social sciences and anthropology to describe the act of judging another culture and believing that the values and standards of one's own culture are superior – especially with regard to language, behavior, customs, and religion.
My biggest issue with it is the risk. I don't really see too much morally or physically wrong with it as a concept. But after studying more genetics than any man ever should, I don't believe anyone should even take the risk of procreation with someone along the same genetic line. The short term disorders are fine, but the long term effects can literally tear apart an entire population with cancer related defects and more. Along with the crazy amount of internal organ issues that can arise from it. There are proven cases of heart chambers not being properly formed in babies from such results of DNA alikeness.
Now I know the situation has the hypothetical protection. But as we all know, condoms (even when used correctly) still have about a 98% of failure. When used less correctly or by the common population, those rates drop to about 95% or lower effectiveness. This is an issue because that mean 1/20 times you will have a child appear with defects. Now if you stack birth controls you may have better effects, but it's still no where near perfect in terms of avoidance. I'd say between two family members that are extremely intelligent and use protection properly, they may never run into this issue. And then in fact if they are able to properly able to outweigh the consequences and go about the whole process safely, then it may not be that dangerous. The only bad obligations would be the social implications that arise.
My biggest and by far worst issue with the whole concept is the usual suspects that take place in incestual acts. The average age that incestual acts take place at is the usual hormonal ages of 15-18. This leads to issues because the brains of these teenagers no where nearly developed enough to make conscious decisions about the possible destruction they could bring to a future life and to an entire future generation and family tree. Also with this age comes along improper use of condoms and other safe sex tools and devices. Along with that it has been proven that most families and people that give into incest driven acts are those of a less than average IQ. This is because the desire for sexual pleasure and gratification is easily able to overpower the low moral processing power of the brain. This is why you end up seeing most family members who commit incestual acts having offspring. Because they're not currently at the age of proper mental processing.
To end up my argument. Do I think incest is wrong personally? Yes, the risk of ruining a future child's/adult's life is awful. I don't even want to see families that are unprepared having children even if they aren't incestual.
Do I think incest would be the worst thing ever if both participating parties were properly above the age of 18, even more near 22? Possibly not. They would have more control over sexual hormones and they would have a much higher level of sexual education in order to keep their family tree safe from any sort of defects that could be spread highly into the future.
But that is if, and only if, they're proper age, not full of hormones, and able to hold an IQ that allows for the proper safety measure to be taken.
Nah i mean i guess this will be absolutely another type of jelaousy. Like yeah you love each other but you know you should left this behind in case you want a healthy family.
I'm not on any side of the argument because I really don't care but the fact that fudgie is really trying to drive home the fact that incest isn't immoral makes me wonder about the relationship he has with his family.
I feel like I have to put a disclaimer after this, so here we go: I do not engage in incestuous relations (or any for that matter ), nor do I want to. I am simply playing the role of devil's advocate here.
In common parlance, the phrase playing devil's advocate describes a situation where someone, given a certain point of view, takes a position they do not necessarily agree with (or simply an alternative position from the accepted norm), for the sake of debate or to explore the thought further using a valid reasoning that both disagrees with the subject at hand and proves their own point valid.