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Originally Posted by Freddie53  Incest has the capacity to more than anything else known to humankind destroy the basic family unit. Husbands having an affair. Wives having an affair. These to pale compared to the damage that is done to the basic family unit when one of the parents has sex with one of the children that these two adults have brought into this world. Whether you base this on religious beliefs or just basic knowledge of people and how the react and relate toward each other, I dont' know of any recognized authority that doesn't not agree with the above statement.
Mom and Dad have a son. The son is now sexually mature. So son seduces the mother and succeeds. Make no mistake about it, in the very vast majority of family units, this family is now screwed once dad finds out. This is why in the wild, the male head of the pack kills the younger males that also are his own sons.
Children having sex with either parent is going to not only destroy the family but most likely result in some sort of warfare if all things are allowed to take their course.
It doesn't get much better when the son takes on the sister in terms of damage to the family, though it does cause major problems as well. |
That's purely subjective on your part, you said a lot, but it's all based on one single subjective premise, therefore it's just all your opinion, nothing objective can be based off of subjective opinions.
Your entire argument is based on the notion that incest is absolutely destructive and can have no other outcome. You overlook a number of possibilities, in both the possible circumstances around the incest as well as the possible outcomes.
First of all, what if there are only two family members left in the family unit? One parent and one offspring, or two siblings? If they have sex, how does that destroy their family relationships if they have none other than to each other?
Secondly, it's purely your opinion that incest is absolutely destructive to a family unit. I know it's a stretch to believe, and I know you're largely correct, but that's due more to the circumstances that lead to the incest than it is the incest itself. THe reason it is destructive is because the type of incest we're used to hearing about is usually coerced, or involuntary, and that naturally leads to the destruction of relationships, ANY relationships. If a man rapes a woman, it destroys their relationship with each other (if they ever had one) and usually will destroy the rapist's relationship with anyone else, regardless of their familial relationship, which often does not exist.
So, we can't proceed to build an argument on an unproven subjective premise: That incest is 100% destructive to the family unit. It is not, I know that for a fact as I know some people who have gone through short-term and some longer-term incestuous relationships and still led perfectly "normal" lives with the rest of the world, and did not destroy their familial bonds in the process. It's rare, but again, as I said, this is due to the cirumstances that surround most incestuous relationships, not the incest itself.