on what basis is incest wrong, page-19

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    oops, sorry. Last sentence cut off, for some reason.

    I find the whole notion of filial sex totally repulsive.
    The excuse that it happens between people who don't know they're related is simply that: an excuse. If they don't know they're related then they don't know they're committing incest. The abhorence comes when they do know. Caligula, who had sex with his sister -and with everything else!- is a good paradigm of the sort of human that would commit incest.
    I feel sandlion's post depicts a very sad and very troubled individual.

    The question of whether morality is an "individual thing" as mozz suggests is profoundly wrong. Morals comes from the word, "mores" which is indeed the accepted behaviour of people as members of a society, not as singular individuals on an island. They are things that guide order and avert chaos, both, within a person's psyche as well as within a society's co-existence.
 
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