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Originally Posted by levite
I can answer this two ways. I can answer as a Jew, whose first response is to think in terms of Jewish philosophy: incest is wrong for Jews because the Torah tells us that God forbids it. This explanation is, of course, only relevant to Jews.
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This makes me think of a story I heard about kids raised on kibbutz. Seems early communal-style kibbutzim had separate houses for the children. So a couple would have a child, and the child would live in a nursery for several years, then in a "children's house"--they'd know their parents and spend the day with their parents, but their quarters were communal with the other children.
After these kids grew up, they all left the kibbutz to find partners. Seems growing up together had them be too familiar with each other to think of each other as potential mates. The idea that they'd be the next generation of the kibbutz went out the window, because none of them could imagine being romantically involved with the girl who lived one bunk down their entire childhood.
I remember in high school, my friend Sara and I tried dating. I knew Sara from when we were quite young, we'd gone to church and church youth events together for years and years. I took her to my Junior prom. Turned out kissing her was like kissing my sister. Very weird. We were really great friends, but there was no chemistry whatsoever, despite it seeming like there ought to have been. Really, it was very very strange. And I could understand how those kibbutz kids would just be numb to each other.