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- 1y
Why is incest wrong?
So I’ve been thinking of taboos and why they’re wrong, and the only one I can’t completely get behind is incest. I still find it rly disgusting and have absolutely no desire to partake in it, but hypothetically, if all parties were consenting adults, and there wasn’t a power imbalance (such as with a parent and their kid, even if the kids an adult, or with siblings or cousins with a significant age gap where one would have looked after the other), I don’t think it’d be morally wrong per se, or at least rn I can’t think of a reason for it to be. But this is kind of freaking me out, I want there to be a reason for it to be wrong, but I can’t think of one. I’ve searched all over the internet, and they’ve all kind of come to the same conclusion, if they’re consenting adults without a power imbalance than it’s not morally wrong, even if it’s gross. But that can’t be it right? Like there has to be a reason? And I feel bad writing this cus I don’t know if it’s ocd or not and I don’t want to look like I support incest, I find it gross and I still don’t think it’s right or good, I’m just not sure if it’s necessarily morally wrong in every case. Help I’m sort of freaking out again.