it isn't important that there isn't a "victim" given mutual consent (people who argue about prion disease or inbred children miss the point)
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
I mean that because people are used to thinking of widely proscribed actions in terms of harm done, when it comes to purity violations, they...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
...(if they are arguing said violations ought to be punished) try to construct the violation in terms of harm norms because it's how they think of transgression
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
eg "close relation incest is wrong because it could produce a malformed child, the victim of the action!" what if they use birth control and if it fails abort? "there's still a chance!" etc
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
when the right argument is, it's banned because it's so disgusting that it offends our sensibilities as a society
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
anyway to segue to the "why tho" it's obvious avoiding cannibalism and incest carry a fitness benefit
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
it's probably unlikely all these societies discovered inbreeding depression or prion disease and took steps to reduce them proactively
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
especially since these taboos usually get imposed *very* early. I don't know of any cannibalistic societies that aren't pre-literate, and...
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pre-literate societies have just as much of a long-ass time to develop taboos as post-literate ones no? perhaps even longer in a sense since they haven't had old-times norms torn down yet
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(sorry I'm speaking civili-chauvinistically here, where pre-literate is the vague forevertimes of "pre-history" and writing marks day one)
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