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I wonder if people will ever realize their morals are wrong despite being popular. We're so quick to judge people in the past or other countries (gay sex is ill

I wonder if people will ever realize their morals are wrong despite being popular. We're so quick to judge people in the past or other countries (gay sex is illegal, say) but ignore our own backyards (sibling sex is illegal). The comedian Lois C K made some bold steps exploring this. "I'm not saying I would kill a kid and fuck him, I'm saying that if I found a dead kid in a field, and it wasn't raining, I might take a shot, I don't know." I wonder if in another 100 years we'll escape our cultural cage and realize it's harmless to have sex with a dead child after all. It's a huge hurdle and there are lot of smaller ones on the way, but we overcame the sex between two men thing, maybe we're making some kind of gradual progress?

quesera 11y ago
> I wonder if in another 100 years we'll escape our cultural cage and realize it's harmless to have sex with a dead child after all. The problem is that dead children are not yet public property, so any defilement becomes an issue of vandalism. Even if the child is subsequently buried on public land and allowed to decay into the earth, any aspiring terraphiliacs would then create a tragedy of the commons problem. Of course, if you're Vinod Khosla, you could buy adjacent land, lock a gate, call upon ancient ancestral rights, have your way with the dirt, and tie the case up in the courts for years.
cryoshon 11y ago
The mores relating to sexual activity are rapidly changing in the direction of liberalization in the US-- 10 years ago being gay wasn't popularly acceptable. On other fronts (polyamory and the galaxy of other sexual options) are rapidly becoming more acceptably and may be mainstream in another 5 or 10 years. Necrophilia, zoophilia and pedophilia aren't on the radar for acceptance yet-- possibly these will come after poly-acceptance (so maybe in the 2030s? hard to say) but I wouldn't be too surprised if they end up sticking around, considering that beyond their reputations those philias are actually harmful.
xlm1717 11y ago
"I wonder if people will ever realize their morals are wrong despite being popular." Yes... their morals are wrong.

quesera 11y ago

> I wonder if in another 100 years we'll escape our cultural cage and realize it's harmless to have sex with a dead child after all. The problem is that dead children are not yet public property, so any defilement becomes an issue of vandalism. Even if the child is subsequently buried on public land and allowed to decay into the earth, any aspiring terraphiliacs would then create a tragedy of the commons problem. Of course, if you're Vinod Khosla, you could buy adjacent land, lock a gate, call upon ancient ancestral rights, have your way with the dirt, and tie the case up in the courts for years.

cryoshon 11y ago

The mores relating to sexual activity are rapidly changing in the direction of liberalization in the US-- 10 years ago being gay wasn't popularly acceptable. On other fronts (polyamory and the galaxy of other sexual options) are rapidly becoming more acceptably and may be mainstream in another 5 or 10 years. Necrophilia, zoophilia and pedophilia aren't on the radar for acceptance yet-- possibly these will come after poly-acceptance (so maybe in the 2030s? hard to say) but I wouldn't be too surprised if they end up sticking around, considering that beyond their reputations those philias are actually harmful.

xlm1717 11y ago

"I wonder if people will ever realize their morals are wrong despite being popular." Yes... their morals are wrong.