At risk of incurring moderator wrath, please remove the metal rod from your arse and stop grasping at straws.Ninja_X said:Ancient cultures married COUSINS not siblings. Also in pride and prejudice, COUSINS not siblings. You can get away with more distant relationships.Graustein said:Stop throwing insults around and actually address my question.Ninja_X said:1st of all, that is retarded.
Even if that did happen, animals (us included) instinctively know not to be attracted to family.
I'd also like to mention that in ancient Egypt, among other places, it was commonplace for the aristocracy and royalty to marry within the family. Take Amenhotep and his sister-wife Ahmose-Meritamun. In fact, just read Pride and Prejudice and you'll see that as recently as the 19th Century it was not considered odd for cousins to marry in England. Finally, I would point you to Greek mythology. Did you know that Zeus and Hera were siblings? How about Oranos and his mother-wife Gaia? Kronos and his sister-wife Rhea? Or the Egyptian Osiris and Isis, yet another wedded pair of siblings. These instances are far from isolated. Now why would human cultures have deities - paragons of contemporary conceptions of virtue, the people we wish we were - which participate in brother-sister incest? How does any of this point towards an instinctual aversion?
As for the gods, you know they aren't real right? That they are just myths? Also, they where gods!!! Not humans, the same rules did not apply to them!!!!!
Gods where not even the "pictures of virtue" you think they where. Even the ancients knew that their gods where a bunch of lunatics that could wipe out whole civilizations on nothing more than a whim. They didn't take all their morals from gods in ancient Greece and such.
There, I addressed your argument and found it full of crap.
A) Sibling marriages were common in Ancient Egypt, as I believe was given in an example there which you seemingly ignored. So what if different cultures married cousins? Incest is incest, isn't it?
B) What creates myths and legends? People. If the Gods were engaging in incest then it was likely based on the fact that it was socially acceptable in the times that they were worshipped. I don't even think he mentioned 'pictures of virtue', so I don't know where you got that one from.
Did you really address his argument? I don't think you did.