It is not necessarily bad news genetically either.  That would depend on the genetic fitness of adults in question.  For highly fit adults, genetics would actually favor such a union over a randomly selected mate.

@Doobie_wop

Even if you had a hot sister, there is a good chance that you probably wouldn't be sexually attracted to her if you grew up with her (if she was a recently adopted sister or a biological sister that you only met recently, that's another story). Plenty of guys consider my sister to be hot but I never did. For most people, they tend not to develop sexual attraction to people they grew up with as children (there is a lot of literature on this but I'm too lazy to dig up the journals and what not. This is pretty well known anyway no?). There are exceptions to the rule but they are just that, exceptions. Just like how pedophiles (people who are attracted to pre-pubescent children) are exceptions to the rule.

Even if Nancy Botwin from Weeds (one of my favorite MILFs) was my mom, it's unlikely I would have developed a sexual attraction to even her even though she's probably the hottest forty-something babe I've ever seen. Because that instinctual incest aversion is so strong in our human nature.

Is it? I don't know, I think it'd be pretty damn cool if my life turned into one big hentai fiasco. My talking dog would try and talk me out of my insecurities, I'd get to drive a mech to work every day, I'd randomly unleash powers I never knew I had, I'd always be stuck at the innocent age of 15 and I'd have a super model older sister to sex me up orally. That sounds like a pretty cool life, don't be jealous.

He, did you really miss the irony there?

I would really reallly appreciate the links

For giving up a good job so someone can be happy with what they do in life?  I don't see why.

If I made 6 figuers a year, my general life wouldn't change much at all.  Money generally holds little use for me once I get past the neccesisties and a few creature comforts.

I'd probably buy an extra videogame every month or two, buy the new systems when they come out... and that'd be it.

The rest would just go in the bank... and since I'm never going to have kids and my parents have my Dad's retirement... i'd have no use for it.

I'd probably end up just donating everything over 40K to charity after the first couple years.

I'd rather her get a job she likes more and finds fufilling and be freed up to try and pursue less matieralistic goals myself quite honestly.

Money ain't everything, heck it isn't anything but a tool.  If you are already happy, it's quite useless.

Heck, I'd even call it a burden... you don't want it and you gotta give it away.  People treating you all differently if you give it away to people you know, people resent you if you don't.

Being rich is a burden.  It's better then being poor... but making just enough so you can live a fufilling life, that's where it's at.

Also, that stuff totally should matter, because your life would of took a completely different career path if the person you married didn't turn out to be such a deceptive douche.

I mean take for example the very common example of people changing or leaving a job because their mate lives in another country.  Direct earning potential completely destroyed there... if you didn't move due to their direct deception and false advertising of themselves you'd be way higher up career wise rather then having to start over.

If it was a buisenss they'd be fined by the government like hell for that.

hahaha that's cool it had run its course anyways :) and thanks!

I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes or so trying to erase my memory. Maybe if I stick this pen far enough up my nose I'll forget what I just read.

Well, that's the tough bit, isn't it?  I mean I believe absolutely in personal freedoms, but because one person's freedom can encroach upon another's you need some sort of check otherwise there is some form of conflict.

Being in Europe, with a lot of medical/social support, I feel that there has to be something to check people overly burdening the system - and by extension me - due to their own stupidity.

This particular angle interestes me because I find it interesting to consider how we will adapt as we discover more about ourselves as a species, as evolution becomes better understood - because TBH most people don't have the faintest clue about it really - and the question of personal freedom in the now vs the long term interests of the species arise.

Incest clearly falls into that bracket, in terms of currently we know it's a bad idea genetically, therefore while it may not directly affect two consenting adults who are siblings, it does stand to affect their decendants and not in a good way.  It also potenially crosses the boundary into placing burdens on welfare if it increases the number of children with disabilities needing care.  If you extend the point, it also crosses into the parent/child personal freedom boundary which is also a tough one - should a child have to tolerate higher chance of illness, etc. or potentially be seen as a bit of a social outcast because of poor decisions by its parents?

It's interesting in Switzerland as well as the country is fairly introverted and has a relatively small population - not the best scenario for allowing incest.  If you were going to allow incest ideally you want a big, travelling population that is much more likely to balance any incest with other couplings.

No easy answers - there never are in reality.