| Mr.Playstation said: Yesterday America finally made Same-sex marriage legal in all fifty states and hence removing power from the fourteen states which did not allow same-sex marriage. However it’s no secret that Same-Sex marriage was taboo and considered morally wrong just a couple of years/decades ago by many and any same-sex act was considered a “Sin” even by those that did not follow any religion. However nowadays this Taboo on Same-Sex marriage has been lifted and thanks to that certain people are now also advocating other practices/acts which up to now are generally considered Taboo. In order of popularity these include: 1. Polygamy 2. Marijuana ( Old source but many have brought this up on social media and Youtube ) 3. Prostitution 4. Incest 5. Pedophilia ( Not all of them have a source since they range from very wanted to much less wanted but all of them have been mentioned in social media and therefore there are minorities which do indeed want these practices/acts to be legalized ) As a normal human being you are more than likely to find that at least one of these practices/acts go against your moral beliefs whether you believe in a religion or not. Therefore my questions are: 1. Do you think that thanks to big steps taken to legalize practices which were previously Taboo, that the practices/acts mentioned above are much more likely to be legalized? 2. Do you personally think that morally we as a society as from now onwards if we do legalize such acts, are heading in the wrong direction? Therefore do you want to see the acts mentioned above be legalized? |
The slippery slope fallacy has been shown to be wrong over and over again. Each case on this list should be judged on its own merits. We do not, or at least should not, legislate morality. We legislate based on harm.
Look over your list, and see which cause harm. Five can be eliminated immediately. Children are simply not capable of making such decisions and defending their own self interests.
Four is pretty clear, but a little less so. We know it is genetically bad to reproduce, and we know it can easily lead to abuse of power in immediate families. Of course, what incest is varies from culture to culture. Pretty much everyone agrees that parent/child incest is clearly harmful, but marrying your second cousin (or even first) varies quite a bit.
Three is kind of iffy. You can probably make a case for harm based on STDs, and the danger of women being dragged into the industry. The act in and of itself may not be harmful on an individual basis, but it may be harmful for society at large.
Two should simply be legal. It causes far less harm than similar legal substances, and the harm caused by its prohibition is greater than the harm of the actual substance.
I don't really know enough about polygamy to speak of it or how it effects children. What I would say is that it makes for a complicated legal arrangement, that would not be very workable.
