Are atheists okay with incest between consenting adults as long contraception is used?

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I'm okay with it. What matters to me is whether people are harming others or not, and there doesn't appear to be anything intrinsically harmful about incest. Of course, there are many cases in which incest can cause suffering, such as inbreeding, rape, etc. but it's not the incest per se that is the problem.

I'm okay with anything between consenting adults. It's none of my business. I agree with the contraception caveat, however, as a resulting pregnancy would potentially introduce a third party who did not, and could not, consent.

Yes, some are, because consensual incest IS okay, as an adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults.

Because if we're talking about CONSENTING ADULTS, there is no good reason to deny other people their sexuality and relationships.

CONSENSUAL incest is not wrong. (Abuse victims: being abused by a relative does not make it wrong for others to have consensual incest, any more than rape by a stranger makes all sex wrong. Sex and assault/molestation are two different things.)

Our laws WILL eventually reflect that. There are a few US states currently where it isn't a prosecutable crime, and there are countries where that is the case as well. Half-siblings can marry in Sweden. The reasons it is illegal in the first place has to do with "sex police" laws dating from church control of countries and states. We've left that behind.

Also, an aversion became common in humans that aided in population growth as one disease couldn't wipe out the human race. That's not a problem anymore.

Consensual incest is very common. You know others who have been involved, whether you know it or not.

There is no rational moral reason for keeping laws or taboos against consensual incest. Personal disgust or religion is only a reason why one person would not want to personally engage in what I call consanguinamory, not why someone else shouldn't do it. An adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults. Youthful experimentation between close relatives close in age is not uncommon, and there are more people than you'd think out there who are in lifelong healthy, happy relationships with a close relative. It isn't for everyone, but we're not all going to want to have each other's love lives, now are we?

Some people try to justify their prejudice against consanguineous sex and marriage by being part-time eugenicists and saying that such relationships inevitably lead to “mutant” or “deformed” babies. This argument can be refuted on several fronts. 1. Some consanguineous relationships involve only people of the same gender. 2. Not all mixed-gender relationships birth biological children. 3. Most births to consanguineous parents do not produce children with significant birth defects or other genetic problems; while births to other parents do sometimes have birth defects. 4. We don’t prevent other people from marrying or deny them their reproductive rights based on increased odds of passing along a genetic problem or inherited disease. It is true that in general, children born to consanguineous parents have an increased chance of these problems than those born to nonconsanguineous parents, but the odds are still minimal. Unless someone is willing to deny reproductive rights and medical privacy to others and force everyone to take genetic tests and bar carriers and the congenitally disabled and women over 35 from having children, then equal protection principles prevent this from being a justification to bar this freedom of association and freedom to marry.

Some say "Your sibling should not be your lover." That is not a reason. It begs the question. Many people have many relationships that have more than one aspect. Some women say their brother is their best friend. Why can’t their brother be a husband, too?

Some say “There are so many people outside of your family." There are plenty of people within one’s own race, too, but that is no reason to ban interracial marriage. So, this isn't a good reason either. Let consenting adults love each other the way they want!

Some say “There is a power differential.” This applies least of all to siblings or cousins who are close in age, but even where the power differential exists, it is not a justification for denying this freedom to sex or to marry. There is a power differential in just about any relationship, sometimes an enormous power differential. To question if consent is truly possible in these cases is insulting and demeaning.

It is fascinating to watch people say a grown woman can't really consent to sex with her father, but she can consent to sex with a man she just met in a bar who is the same age as her father.

We have already been asked this question by the character known as "Don Vidal" here on Y!A and many others.

Since people want to keep asking the same question, you will keep getting the same answer:

What happens between consenting adults in their private sexual lives is their own business. It bewilders me that people can't (or won't) grasp this.

Are atheists okay with incest between consenting adults as long contraception is used?

---- I'm not.

Why?

---- Will.

Any argument from the basis of "rights" is a non-argument to me. There is no right to have sex...or to worship...or to marry. The whole 'rights" concept is just lawyer speak for "magic."

As a theist, you have a priest, rabbi or mullah, to tell you what to do.

As an atheist, I have my conscience to tell me what is right and what is wrong. For me, incest is never consenting and, if it was, it would feel wrong but then, I am not telling other people what to do, based on my beliefs. Something you, theists, do.

It is perfectly fine to have a faith and spiritual life. But you shall not display it in public, impose it on others or write laws with it.

No. The reason is because contraception fails all the time. Also, I do believe wanting to have incest is the result of psychological damage and will produce even more psychological damage.

Yes because it doesn't cause any harm so long as they're responsible. On the other hand, what people do in their own homes isn't my business.

We're not into that shxt. Your holy book is the one that's got quite a bit of incest going on in it.

Incest is written in the bible and so it is the Christians' question not an atheists' question.