you forgot tenticles......and catching your mom and best friend doing it in your room before you join them.

Well considering what you said in the pst above this one, it makes sense that you gave up having a big career in order for your GF to have one. You didn't really give up something you wanted (which esentially doesn't make it a sacrifice). However a person who would give up something they wanted very much (like a career), so that their SO could have one is simply an idiot!

Also it shouldn't matter. It's too subjective to have any place in a court of law. People should be responsable for their own decisions, and your business analogy is wrong, as people and corporations are fundementally different. You Americans need to stop being so sue-happy and start taking responsability for your bad decisions.

Sick parents exist. By decriminalizing it, they, the sick parents, can secretly abuse  and teach their kids to act that way and it won't be a choice anymore. Am I crazy to think like that?

I am conflicted on this subject for the same reasons that someone else in this thread brought up. I have some libertarian-esque leanings on the social side of things. If consenting adults are committing incestual relations with each other, I really don't care. It's none of my business. That said, we don't like in a purely free market economy so if god forbid two relatives have a baby and it turns out to have down's syndrome, us taxpayers have to foot the bill for the product of their incestuous pleasures.

But when you go down that line of thinking, you could very well justify eugenics. And that is a line that I'd rather us not go down. It's tough to say where you draw the line between liberty and having to conform to societal norms. Even if we lived in a libertarian society, the actions of people still do affect others at least on an indirect level. As humans we are social animals and interconnected and interdependent on another. Think about it. Even in a so-called "perfect" libertarian world where there's no income tax and small government, every single time a person chooses to be an underachiever and not live up to their productive potential, the GDP of the country suffers (since they won't be contributing to the economy all that much). We are all interconnected no matter what. We do not live in a vacuum.

That's an overexaggeration. We humans form groups that are more like packs of wolves, rather than ant farms. If we were more like true social animals such as ants, things like communism would work quite well, however we're not.

Which is my point.  When you expand the denial of rights from a subgroup, into the majority, it illustrates the problem.

Like gay addoption being illegal extended to all adoption being illegal.

Eh, i'd of enjoyed it more then working temporary jobs and minimium wage jobs.   However she'd be happier doing her job then i'd be doing that job, and I'm happier doing the crappy jobs in the short term then she'd be.

If I were single i'd of definitly went that way.  As a career it was the most fun option I had at that point, and like I said, being rich is better then being poor.   At that point I was pretty much boxed in to a high paying job I liked, a high paying job I didn't like, or no advantage to having gone to college.

No, it's a real issue.  I did some research after reading this, apparently it's fairly common even for brother's to rape their daughters or other brothers.

Seems like their could be issues abound.

The fact that the majority of the posts in this thread say "Who cares", "Sure why not", and "Yeah! About time" are disturbing to me... It just shows the downfall of society nowadays and it makes me very sad...

Many of the replies here compare us to animals... Really? Are you trying to erase the line between humans and animals? What the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah, let's make murder and rape and pedophilia (I've seen threads on this site CONDONING pedophilia) and everything else legal... I mean shit, debate professors tend to argue about the slippery slope argument, but this thread is a prime example of what mainstream liberalism has done to society...

And YES IT IS BAD FOR THE SPECIES. I mean, did no-one here take any biology courses? (College-level I mean). The benefit we have as a species by having sexual reproduction is that we CREATE DIFFERENTIATION WITHIN THE GENE POOL. The more varied our species is, the more prepared the human race is to evolve...

OH, and protection is NOT 100% effective. Geez people.

The ignorance within this thread is ridiculous...