In Defense of "In Defense of Incest"
a novel
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Originally Posted by The Passenger
I find a debate on incest to be silly. I think I've made that abundantly clear. What I find interesting is that I post a film which was a warm up acting excercise with an actor spouting bull**** off the top of his head (and it is made clear at the end that it is not real nor serious) and it inspires posts like plancers. I already pmed him about it and he had no problem with it and even found it intersting also.
Confirmed, I was actually quite pleased. (and impressed!)
Recently, someone posted a link to a couple five minute videos stating that the Earth was expanding. Not only did I and a decent number of posters watch (and rewatch) the videos, we bothered to write explanations for why the video was wrong. I personally wrote an argument based on the difference between gravitational potential energies (and solved it using real values).
Unlike the aforementioned video, the video in this thread actually presented a powerful argument, one made more impressive because it is against literally the only universal taboo in humanity.
I am more than happy to examine and debate viewpoints that someone doesn't believe.
I am slightly annoyed about how saturated this thread is with trolls. The legitimate replies to the OP (RyanB9, sockhead, and myself)
are all qualified agreements with the OP's video.
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Originally Posted by sockhead2
(first part of post his a strong argument against OP)
Edit: But isolated incidents with mutual consent don't bother me at all. Still, without the taboo, it might become wide spread, and that might lead to the complications I mentioned above.
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Originally Posted by Ryanb9
Thanks for arguing this OP, I didn't agree with you before because I never thought about it but now I agree with you.
(what follows is an explanation)
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Originally Posted by Plancer
(everything except a fragment of the Cliffs Cliffs has been removed. You could call this the Cliffs Cliffs Cliffs)
"yes, you're right, but that isn't the reason incest should be illegal." and "How does his criticism of the incest taboo, if acted upon, have any effect? "
Ironically, part of my argument against the OP's video was the genesis of the law is irrelevant to its utility.
Applying the argument to the thread states "the genesis of this video is irrelevant to how truthtastic it is."
A parting word for the trolls:
Seriously, stop your fallacies from ****ing your thinking and start thinking about ****ing your sister (with your phalluses, seriously).
Last edited by Plancer; 09-04-2010 at 08:58 PM.
Reason: Forgot the quotation marks in the title. That's the only thing I put in this post that I could possibly regret, right?