and I would like you to apologize for insulting me.
Next time, use a PM for this crap and my point still stands. Also, you are getting no such thing from me.
My point was that you are posting things in this topic to derail it. You PM'd tiffanys... great. And... that is license to derail the thread? But pushing that aside, take the rest of this to PM.
Now, I've already put out my perception based on the idea of a community based society vs an individualistic society. Individualistic society, no one really cares. One could parallel this idea to illegal drugs. These drugs aren't legal (duh), but used by quite a few individuals. Clamoring for the legalization seems to get brushed off frequently. Most likely because it is perceived to have more harm than good. In a community based society, anything that damages the community is purged. (not just incest, but many other things as well). Mainly to ensure survival of the group.
Where do I stand?
I personally don't/wouldn't engage in incest. But I'm not going to slam someone who is genuinely in love. And yes, if it's an idea of "out of sight, out of mind" as others have stated similar to the parallels of the idea of illicit drugs or prostitution. I'd rate it as basically the same idea as "hey, I'm banging a hooker." and "Hey, I'm banging my sister". Not something that you really should be proud of...
Somehow, I think also it has many issues to do with the confusion between infatuation, love (which is overused a hell of a lot anyways) and basically different types of emotional support. I mean, people can't even tell the difference between acquaintance and friend anymore.
What I am interested in are people's rights. To be quite honest, I can't help but feel that later on people are going to look back at our time and see us in the same light that we see the Dark Ages, and it's sad because we can do something about it but nobody does.
Hmm... Missed this point earlier.
This confuses me to a certain extent. Why would people want to randomly argue for the addition of the right of something without ever perceiving a need for it at a personal level or within arms reach? I'm referring to the comment about the mob mentality thing.