Ok real talk, if two cousins genuinely liked each other how would you feel about this? (also can someone educate me like I’m a kindergartener about the ‘power dynamics’ shit people are talking about I’m not familiar about stuff like that.)
As family members and close friends? That’s completely fine.
As lovers? That’s disgusting. Also it’s not the power dynamics in this case, it’s the fact that as close relatives, their dna chromatids base pairs are extremely similar. This means that genetic illnesses, mental illnesses, physical disabilities, cancer, rouge mutations, still-birth, miscarriage, and so forth all go through the roof with each proceeding generation when incest is taking place.
Not to mention that it is so bad, that our brains are psychologically wired to prevent us from attempting incest, as there is a mental phenomenon called the The Westermarck Effect that prevents people from feeling sexual attraction to their close family members. This is similar to a phenomenon that prevents humans from attempting cannibalism. This is because incest and cannibalism wreck havoc on the human mind, lead to deadly illness and death, and devastate a population.
This means that genetic illnesses, mental illnesses, physical disabilities, cancer, rouge mutations, still-birth, miscarriage, and so forth all go through the roof with each proceeding generation when incest is taking place.
Not a supporter of incest, but where’s the line crossed really, would you consider not procreating with someone who has disabilities for the fear of them the same?
That is a very loaded question and dependent on a lot of factors. I cannot give an exact answer as there are to many possible scenarios. For example, would I wish to procreate with someone who is afflicted and has a family history of Huntingtons Disease, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease? Never in a million years, at that point in my opinion it is immoral to have children only to doom them to a very short and miserable life.
On the other hand, I would have no problem with a partner having a mild autism, depression, anxiety, six fingers or other genetic quirk.
Plus I do not really consider procreating with a person who has a disability to be in the same category as incest. As incest only increases the odds of everything going wrong by an extreme amount.
It’s so taboo where I’m from, I cannot imagine how that would arise unless two adult cousins met as adults and did not know they were related before falling for each other. It would be the same as siblings.
There can be love, but it’s platonic, nurturing, and cannot be sexual regardless of whether it is lawful. I’m not trying to lay down a general rule or be judgemental, here. I just cannot conceive of cousins seeing each other as possible love interests.
I imagine the power dynamics refers to the way that, say, an older cousin who has e.g. helped raise a younger cousin might abuse that trust. It seems like grooming to me. Younger cousins might look up to older cousins in the same way as do younger and older siblings. Abusing power dynamics is fucked up, anyway, whatever the genetic relation.
Ok real talk, if two cousins genuinely liked each other how would you feel about this? (also can someone educate me like I’m a kindergartener about the ‘power dynamics’ shit people are talking about I’m not familiar about stuff like that.)
As family members and close friends? That’s completely fine.
As lovers? That’s disgusting. Also it’s not the power dynamics in this case, it’s the fact that as close relatives, their dna chromatids base pairs are extremely similar. This means that genetic illnesses, mental illnesses, physical disabilities, cancer, rouge mutations, still-birth, miscarriage, and so forth all go through the roof with each proceeding generation when incest is taking place.
Not to mention that it is so bad, that our brains are psychologically wired to prevent us from attempting incest, as there is a mental phenomenon called the The Westermarck Effect that prevents people from feeling sexual attraction to their close family members. This is similar to a phenomenon that prevents humans from attempting cannibalism. This is because incest and cannibalism wreck havoc on the human mind, lead to deadly illness and death, and devastate a population.
Not a supporter of incest, but where’s the line crossed really, would you consider not procreating with someone who has disabilities for the fear of them the same?
That is a very loaded question and dependent on a lot of factors. I cannot give an exact answer as there are to many possible scenarios. For example, would I wish to procreate with someone who is afflicted and has a family history of Huntingtons Disease, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease? Never in a million years, at that point in my opinion it is immoral to have children only to doom them to a very short and miserable life.
On the other hand, I would have no problem with a partner having a mild autism, depression, anxiety, six fingers or other genetic quirk.
Plus I do not really consider procreating with a person who has a disability to be in the same category as incest. As incest only increases the odds of everything going wrong by an extreme amount.
It’s so taboo where I’m from, I cannot imagine how that would arise unless two adult cousins met as adults and did not know they were related before falling for each other. It would be the same as siblings.
There can be love, but it’s platonic, nurturing, and cannot be sexual regardless of whether it is lawful. I’m not trying to lay down a general rule or be judgemental, here. I just cannot conceive of cousins seeing each other as possible love interests.
I imagine the power dynamics refers to the way that, say, an older cousin who has e.g. helped raise a younger cousin might abuse that trust. It seems like grooming to me. Younger cousins might look up to older cousins in the same way as do younger and older siblings. Abusing power dynamics is fucked up, anyway, whatever the genetic relation.