| 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? |
I'm sorry, but there's nothing wrong with any of the things you mentioned. #4 and #5 need a bit more clarification though. #4 is OK as long as it's between two consenting adults, but otherwise it's not OK (so no parents molesting their kids, please). #5 is OK as an orientation, since what can you do if that ends up being your orientation? As long as you don't act on it, it's OK. Deeds matter, not thoughts.
Also, #3 is about the same level as alcohol. They're both bad but certainly within people's rights in my opinion.
As for the questions:
1. Polygamy will get legalized sooner or later, and so will marijuana. Prostitution is a tougher question and I imagine it could go either way, even periodically. Incest isn't likely to ever gather much attention so it's probably not going to get legalized in a long time. Pedophilia itself is probably not illegal even now, but molesting children is. Pedophilia isn't going to become illegal and molesting children isn't going to be legal, so everything's going OK there.
2. We're heading in the right direction, just too slowly. Anything that's not clearly harmful should be legal. The less restrictions the better.
