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Artaxerxes comments on Open Thread, Jul. 13 - Jul. 19, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Artaxerxes 16 July 2015 06:09:10AM -1 points [-]

Wouldn't "inter-family" be between different families? I'm not sure, but "intra-family" makes more sense to me, if you're trying to refer to incestuous relationships. A quick google search suggests the same.

I'm not sure what society will do, but I don't see anything wrong with incest or incestuous relationships in general, and don't believe that they should be illegal. That's not to say that incestuous relationships can't have something wrong with them, but from what I can tell, incestuous relationships that have something wrong with them are due to reasons separate to the fact that they are incestuous (paedophilic, abusive, power imbalance, whatever).

Comment author: Elo 16 July 2015 07:38:11AM -1 points [-]

Thanks for this. I believe, based on the responses that this might classify as an interesting and soon outdated; old-world belief. Glad to have made note of the idea.

I have no support for it, or personal interest, but I am also entirely not against it either.