| 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 the legistlation of 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
( 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? |
To answer your questions:
1. I don't think this sets a precendent for legalizing all other practices listed. Beside Polygamy I don't really think they are related.
2. As a society things have been moving in the right direction. It works both ways; some things have gotten more liberal, some less. There are a lot of things that were accepted in the past and we now consider them morally unacceptable and harmful or illegal. We humans know more about ourselves now than we did 50, 100 or 2000 years ago so we're better able to decide what is healthy, what's unhealthy, and what doesn't really matter.
A same-sex marriage doesn't really hurt anyone. It's really better and healthier for gay people to be in a stable relationship, rather than sleep around - same as it is for straight people.
