Recent content by Efftee [deprecated]

So, outside of inbreeding, you wouldn't find anything wrong with, say, a 50-year-old man having sex with his 14-year-old daughter (in Japan, I guess)? Really? Honestly?

You can violate a norm without breaking a law. If I walk up to you in a restaurant and fart on your dinner, I'm not breaking any laws, but I'm sure as hell violating some societal norms.

Things that are improbably are still possible. It doesn't mean you're going to see a rubber band expand on its own or someone spontaneously combust anytime soon.

I wasn't agreeing with you. Try rereading what you and I wrote seven or eight times, you'll get it eventually.

Do you really believe your own bullshit? You really think there are all these blissful incestuous relationships going on that we don't hear about?

You're about as sharp as a bowling ball. I say that laws and norms don't always line up identically, and you claim I'm saying that laws are arbitrary. I say that a genetic response has as much to do with one's own consideration of what is family as shared heredity, and you claim this proves...

Crime is a violation of societal laws. Laws and norms do not necessarily line up identically.

Well this is pretty self-evident. By "hard-wired" I mean that you will not be attracted to those who you *consider* to be family. I doubt there's any kind of magical genetic recognition of kinship that's at play.

A highly unusual case, as he did not meet his biological family until well into adulthood.

You're confused as to what deviant behavior means. Deviant behavior refers to a blatant VIOLATION of social norms, not merely doing something unusual. Wearing a toga every day, or, say, remaining a virgin all your life is strange, but it's not deviant behavior. Something like, for example...

Name one otherwise emotionally stable person in the history of the human race who has been sexually attracted to a member of their immediate family. Please.

Ethics and legality aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, they often go hand in hand. Also, favoritism is not the only reason why sexual relationships with inferiors is not allowed in the military. It can also affect the decision-making process of the superior -- it's for the same reason that...

Bullshit. If a student approaches a teacher, and the teacher acts on that, is the relationship still exploitative? Hell yes it is. Anyway, I don't have to play the game and "see what the specific situation is" to make a judgment call on it. Incest is deviant, in the truest sense of the...

I'm perfectly fine making this generalization, in the same way that a military officer having a sexual relationship with someone under their command will always be unethical, or a teacher with a student. An older sibling or parent is in a position that makes a sexual relationship...

Did you actually bother reading more than three words of what I wrote? Thematic exploration and endorsement are two VERY different things. Oedipus's marriage to his mother is, quite literally, a curse. "Consensual" incest isn't even really possible given the exploitative nature of a...