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After reviewing the various legal arguments used to justify criminalizing incest, Saletan comes to the conclusion that genetics cannot be the fundamental basis, since incestuous sex could be non-reproductive. Similarly, the basic issue cannot be consent, since no one is arguing in this case that the sex was non-consensual.

He gets the liberal response just about right: “At this point, liberals tend to throw up their hands. If both parties are consenting adults and the genetic rationale is bogus, why should the law get involved? Incest may seem icky, but that’s what people said about homosexuality, too. It’s all private conduct.”


1 posted on 12/15/2010 9:45:05 AM PST by wmfights
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“When a young man falls in love with another man, no family is destroyed.”

Wrong.

Two are and two more potentially are. The potential ones are those each ‘mo could have had if they were not encouraged to pursue deviancy.


32 posted on 12/15/2010 10:07:12 AM PST by Adder (Part 1 Accomplished)
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Why are we even ASKING this question?????


34 posted on 12/15/2010 10:09:37 AM PST by hoagy62 (.)
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Yes, Josef Fritzl of Austria has shown us all the joys of an incestuous family. Pedophlia builds healthy attitudes toward sex in children? The lessons of eons of human experience can be discarded. If it feels good to you, the hell with how it screws up the kids. This filth has to be the final nail in our coffin.


37 posted on 12/15/2010 10:12:51 AM PST by JimSEA
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Has anybody considered that maybe the Liberals are already doing a lot of incest and that’s why there are so many Liberals?


38 posted on 12/15/2010 10:14:44 AM PST by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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Let's make sure Professor Epstein's photo is prominently shown...


41 posted on 12/15/2010 10:16:36 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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43 posted on 12/15/2010 10:21:26 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Well, if it’s a ‘consentual’ relationship, shouldn’t the daughter also be charged?


47 posted on 12/15/2010 10:35:55 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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Because my sister, wonderful woman that she is, is also not attractive to me. Nor is my mom. Nor are my daughters.

I got a cousin thats kind of cute, but she is really high maintenance.


50 posted on 12/15/2010 10:40:46 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don't taze my junk bro.)
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From the teeter-totter scene in National Lampoons’ “Vacation” - “Daddy says I’m the best”.


54 posted on 12/15/2010 10:45:34 AM PST by printhead
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In the very next listed post I saw this “Not enough research done to determine if polygamy is harmful, professor says”

Well isn't that just special!</gay voice>

Homosexuality is now considered normal.
Incest not bad.
Polygamy not harmful.

Hey we only have a few to go to satisfy the liberals by allowing everything except conservative thought. Ah diversity and tolerance are a beautiful thing in the mind of a liberal. Their version of diversity of course.

56 posted on 12/15/2010 10:49:33 AM PST by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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Get rid of incest, polygamy, bestiality laws.. and pretty soon you will end up being Saudi Arabia.. or Somalia.. or Detroit..


59 posted on 12/15/2010 10:56:43 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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Without going all religious....I know dentists absolutely hate it!

Not enough teeth in the offspring!

61 posted on 12/15/2010 10:59:35 AM PST by Logic n' Reason (You can roll a turd in powered sugar; that don't make it a jelly donut)
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Gee, I guess that our society isn't circling the toilet drain fast enough.

Here, let's legitimize incest.

64 posted on 12/15/2010 11:03:29 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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Just kidding, folks.

66 posted on 12/15/2010 11:12:49 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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Orthodox conservatives just know that somethings, especially icky things just are not done. That they are wrong. That they are a stench in the nostrils of God. That to do them is to open up the chasm of hell beneath your feet. THEY ARE FLAT OUT, PLAIN AS DIRT, WRONG.

Liberal heretics who do their thinking with their naughty bits can not grasp this. As long as what they do ends with the log going over the waterfall it must be right and good. They live a lie, they enjoy a lie, they defend the lie. They demand others approve the lie. Pfft on them.


69 posted on 12/15/2010 11:27:03 AM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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"If both parties are consenting adults and the genetic rationale is bogus, why should the law get involved?"

In the absence of God, this is what passes for reason. It is a continuous spiral down the toilet bowel of humanity, with a predictable destination awaiting us. Now, I realize we don't live in a theocracy like ancient Israel, and that civil government isn't the Church. Even the Church isn't the Church anymore, but society really should consider deferring to a few morals left over from saner times and thinkers. If the philosophers of civil government can't figure their way out of the senselessness of godlessness, they should impose a few moral absolutes on themselves as a lifeline out of idiocy. "

When a young man falls in love with another man, no family is destroyed."

Only in our pop culture could thinking this shallow occur.

73 posted on 12/15/2010 11:54:33 AM PST by pallis
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New from Mattel for Christmas 2010:

‘Incest’ -— A Fun Game the Whole Family Can Enjoy!


74 posted on 12/15/2010 11:59:44 AM PST by TRY ONE (Another Beer Summit.....another day in Debt)
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It just astounds me that they would even have this conversation.


75 posted on 12/15/2010 12:17:40 PM PST by Wile E Coyote Genius (IQ 206....more than all Democrats combined)
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Moral relativism can rationalize anything, even genocide.


86 posted on 12/15/2010 3:48:04 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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Rick Santorum brought this up years ago, and caught hell for it—from the gays. Fact is that if homosexual marriage is allowed, then polygamy and polygandry will soon follow—and incest. Because we can witness this in denenerate families. Remember “Tobacco Road?”


90 posted on 12/16/2010 7:37:56 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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