RE: Mother and son in New Mexico face jail time for incestuous relationship
August 10, 2016 at 8:50 am
*Shrugs* I think I'm in agreement with most folks here. If it's between two consenting adults, it's none of my business, regardless of my visceral reaction to it.
Two notes though: As has been mentioned in this thread, the power dynamic situation between a parent and child is something that I might have reservations about (with the possibility of 'grooming' a child for something once they hit 18, etc). That would be my only hang-up when it comes to parent-offspring relations. Secondly, the 'as long as they don't have children of their own' caveat is ridiculous. There are plenty of unrelated couples in the world that are genetically predisposed to have children with all sorts of mutations/disabilities and we don't do anything to regulate their breeding lives. Unless someone wants to enact a law regulating every breeding pair that might have some genetic defect in their children, reserving it specifically for related people seems silly and unnecessary.
Two notes though: As has been mentioned in this thread, the power dynamic situation between a parent and child is something that I might have reservations about (with the possibility of 'grooming' a child for something once they hit 18, etc). That would be my only hang-up when it comes to parent-offspring relations. Secondly, the 'as long as they don't have children of their own' caveat is ridiculous. There are plenty of unrelated couples in the world that are genetically predisposed to have children with all sorts of mutations/disabilities and we don't do anything to regulate their breeding lives. Unless someone wants to enact a law regulating every breeding pair that might have some genetic defect in their children, reserving it specifically for related people seems silly and unnecessary.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
