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Originally Posted by D
That's a view that Jeff Jacoby, of the Boston Globe, also shares:
"Your reaction to the prospect of lawful incest may be "Ugh, gross." But personal repugnance is no replacement for moral standards. For more than 3,000 years, a code of conduct stretching back to Sinai has kept incest unconditionally beyond the pale. If sexual morality is jettisoned as a legitimate basis for legislation, personal opinion and cultural fashion are all that will remain."
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first, let me say i think you are one of the most well spoken and intelligent people on this board, so i'm not attacking your position or your views or opinions.. and really have no interest in jousting while you cut and paste or post links and demand i read them to "educate myself", but rather want to take this opportunity to clarify my position.
the issue has absolutely nothing to do with "morality" or "personal repugnance" - a father does not sexually molest his child because of the psychological damage it causes, the pain it causes, the life long trauma it causes. because it was once "acceptable" to varying degrees at different points in history or in different areas of the world, does not change the harm it causes. a lot of things have been "acceptable" and we could go on for the next 3 weeks making uber retarded lists of "what was once acceptable" and that has nothing to do with the emotional trauma, the hurt, the pain, the betrayal and the damage done to a child as the result of being sexualized or raped by a parent.
secondly, this whole conversation about "right" and "wrong" assumes that two emotionally healthy people can have such a relationship. and some seem to be more than willing to further assume that just because two people are together doing something so abhorrent, as long as they proclaim it to be "love" then its totally ok, totally normal and a totally healthy relationship for all involved. no psychologist on the face of the earth is going to agree with that. no psychologist is going to say "well, to be honest, i can't see how a father having children with his daughter while raising her children from another marriage, is going to cause any harm to them, to the existing children or to the new children"
i personally don't care what anyone does behind closed doors. but this isn't about what two people are doing. this is about what two people are doing to 3 and probably more children.