"Don't you realize the harm psychologically, in every way of sexual love between brother and sister?"
In general, I would agree, however, the psychological harm of sexual love between siblings does not really come from the fact that they share the same genes, it comes from the fact that it compromises the familial relationship they share. Say you had a stepbrother and stepsister whose parents married when they were both young and grew up in the same house being raised, for all practical intents and purposes, as brother and sister. Then, after the two become adults, they decide to pursue a romantic relationship together. I think most people would agree this would not really be any better than a bio brother and sister doing this. Sure, inbreeding wouldn't be an issue, but morally and ethically, it would not be a good idea. What happens if the two cannot make it as lovers? Could they just revive the previous relationship as siblings and go back to being the brother and sister they were raised to be? It's questionable. Yes, the long term affects of what inbreeding can cause definitely make incest a bad thing, but what makes it morally wrong is not ultimately the fact that the two people share the same blood lines, but the fact that they are making a change to their relation to each other that is not meant to be changed in such a way. In the home among family is supposed to be an environment in which children can feel safe from the complications, pressures, and tensions that sexual and romantic feelings between people can bring. They deserve to know the sibling they are taking a bath with is always going to be just that, their brother/sister and not a potential mate or lover. Should every child have to wonder if mom/dad/bro/sis will love them in a confusing and different way some day then the way they do now? This is why the incest taboo canot be relaxed in society, it would make the world a confusing place in an unacceptable way for young people to live in. However, in this episode of Strong Medicine, the brother and sister were only such biologically. As their relationship went, they had never known each other in life as siblings, only lovers, two people who were completely in love from day one and wanted to spend life together, so there was no threat of psychological harm from their relationship in this case. Why should they have discarded their loving marriage and happy life together just because of a technicality neither of them knew about before?
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