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Originally posted by James
Why can't you marry your brother or your sister? Father or mother? As long as your consenting adults?
In Florida not to long ago they put a father and daughter in jail for getting married. They were both of the same legal age.
Don't use the genetics argument either, it isn't valid.
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The slippery slope argument is sometimes useful, and sometimes not. It was also used when anti-miscegeny laws were in the process of being struck down. Did interracial marriages lead us down a slippery slope? If so, was it wrong to allow them? If not, how do we know WHERE to draw the line. The answer to that, it seems to me, is to take it on a case by case basis. If the only reason in keeping something illegal is because it may lead to making something else entirely viewed more favorably, is it ok to keep that thing illegal?