Mother and son in New Mexico face jail time for incestuous relationship

[Excited Penguin]

It's hard to see tone and inflection in written word unless it's accompanied by tons of emoticons. I wasn't implying that people here don't have common sense. I was trying to say, and I guess I worded it wrong, was that, for the most part, we, as humans, are not attracted to our own family members for a reason. I don't know... my personal feelings on it is that "ya just don't go there", but again, what two consenting people do is none of my business. I'd just feel sorry for any kids that might be born as a result. And any adult in a position of shaping and molding another human being, should really know better.

We talk all the time in the religious forum sections about how Lot slept with his own daughters and the wrongness with it. How is this any different than that? If we take issues with a bible telling a story of incest and we jump all over theists for believing in such a story, then turn around and do a complete about face and say, "well, this mother and son are consenting adults so they can do what they want", doesn't that pretty much put us in a "pot calling the kettle black" situation? We can't be okay with one situation and not okay with the other.

Maybe it would just be better to take a neutral stance on it and let those actually involved in those kinds of relationships, figure it out for themselves. The laws should get thrown out because hell, gun laws don't stop criminals from using guns, so how would any of these incest laws actually prevent incest?

My moral stance and my legal stance are completely different stances because I don't think it's ok to force morals via laws. I don't know that I would agree that all incest is morally wrong...but it's definitely not for me. I don't think it should be illegal, but not because the illegality doesn't stop people from doing it. Just because...adults should be allowed to make their own choices as long as they're not harming others.

How can your morals not align with your views on legal matters, though? That doesn't make any sense.