I see what your saying. And once again, I personally do not thing relatives should be able to marry. I base that on moral rather than legal grounds though.

However, if the only basis for limiting adult relatives to marry one another was based on the possible "psychological" effects of such a union, then you've opened the door to the government having to evaluate every adult who wants to marry to see if they're psychologically capable of entering into a marriage contract. You cannot single out one group who wants to marry by requiring them to go through extra steps that everyone else is exempt from having to go through as well. There's the whole "equal protection" angle to consider.

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Posted by lsu2006

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Posted on 9/3/15 at 2:48 pm to Darth_Vader

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I personally do not thing relatives should be able to marry. I base that on moral rather than legal grounds though.

What is the precise moral issue it presents? Other than "ewwww that's weird".

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Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 9/3/15 at 2:58 pm to Darth_Vader

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However, if the only basis for limiting adult relatives to marry one another was based on the possible "psychological" effects of such a union, then you've opened the door to the government having to evaluate every adult who wants to marry to see if they're psychologically capable of entering into a marriage contract. You cannot single out one group who wants to marry by requiring them to go through extra steps that everyone else is exempt from having to go through as well.

I'm not saying they should go through extra steps

I'm explicitly stating that I do not believe that marriage should be legal between a brother/sister/parent and it has nothing to with the "ewww factor" as the other poster stated.

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