(Stepping in from abortiondebate) 'ello. Opposite side of the isle, but hey, can't agree on everything.
Right, so, the incest thing. When a child grows up, his/her family is, obviously, a big part of what forms that child into an adult. If a parent or sibling, who had something to do with that child's upbringing, proceeds to have a sexual relationship with that person, it has an incredibly huge power imbalence. From day one, the child was groomed to be a potential sexual partner of the older people in his/her life.
For this reason, I have much more of a problem with sexual relationships between close relatives by adoption than I do with the same relation through blood.
Honestly, while it makes my stomach churn to imagine a brother and sister, even seperately raised, together, I can't see a justification to make them stop. It's not my right to chose for them. They should, however, as an ethical, but not legal obligation, submit to genetic screening as a debt to their potential children. If the pair is gay, or otherwise unable to concieve together, well, that's entirely their business and they carry no responsibility of any kind to anyone else about it.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2008-01-09 08:56 am (UTC)Right, so, the incest thing. When a child grows up, his/her family is, obviously, a big part of what forms that child into an adult. If a parent or sibling, who had something to do with that child's upbringing, proceeds to have a sexual relationship with that person, it has an incredibly huge power imbalence. From day one, the child was groomed to be a potential sexual partner of the older people in his/her life.
For this reason, I have much more of a problem with sexual relationships between close relatives by adoption than I do with the same relation through blood.
Honestly, while it makes my stomach churn to imagine a brother and sister, even seperately raised, together, I can't see a justification to make them stop. It's not my right to chose for them. They should, however, as an ethical, but not legal obligation, submit to genetic screening as a debt to their potential children. If the pair is gay, or otherwise unable to concieve together, well, that's entirely their business and they carry no responsibility of any kind to anyone else about it.