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To: MegaSilver
Thanks for the compliment. But I have a query, MegaSilver. Do you think that bestiality and incest should be legal, so long as the acts are not in the public eye?
14 posted on 02/15/2004 5:16:49 PM PST by asmith92008
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To: asmith92008
Thanks for the compliment. But I have a query, MegaSilver. Do you think that bestiality and incest should be legal, so long as the acts are not in the public eye?

Excellent point.

I'm not sure, to be honest. In the case of incest, though, I would have to say DEFINITELY not, as there is a potential victim (if a child is conceived, the chances are great that he or she will have severe, life-altering defects).

Overall, though, laws against adultery, fornication, homosexual acts, bestiality, etc. are largely unenforcable and not really deterrents to the acts. I think the key is to try to create the social fabric in which such acts are frowned upon, but criminal? I'm not sure...

15 posted on 02/15/2004 5:21:52 PM PST by MegaSilver
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To: asmith92008
according to Lawrence adult incest should be legal.

Marriage is a public act and a public institution. Marriage is not a private act. Sex is a private act.

18 posted on 02/15/2004 6:23:15 PM PST by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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