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Originally posted by rooker20:
The point is that just saying "oh, she's/I'm adopted so it's not really wrong" doesn't necessarily make it all that right. But as always, this is just my opinion and I've seen that nasty exploding-head, girl-in-a-suitcase, gooey-egg-laying Uziga "artwork" and laughed at it, so I probably shouldn't be talking about what's right or wrong.
First off please clarify your Gibo point if you can it sounds like a slight contradiction where if they have only known each other two days and know they are not blood related it is okay otherwise not, though it might be my misreading.
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It also does not necessarily or automatically make it wrong either, society is controlled by a narrow sense of right and wrong, so narrow at times it fears learning it might fall under what is considered but might not in fact be wrong and not give a flying crap.
The thing I have with anyone being so against the adopted or step, or whatever non blood relation sibling you can come up with having a relationship with another is in part because any arguments about genetics can be removed. Yes family might in fact be a state of mind, hence why animals are often considered children or siblings, but does that mean if you have grown up next door to a girl that has basically been thought of by you as your kid sister even though she is part of another family, that one day is suddenly seen as something else entirely by you as you are by here, that anything you do with her is wrong? Technically she is family, in your and her state of mind, but not by any other terms is she family. So is that relationship wrong?
Personally there is a reason I don't mind the way they do it in Kana, and Crescendo though oddly Gibo disturbs me more but that has more to do with the fact she is married then any other relationship. My reason is this, if you meet the one that is your step, adopted, whatever, sister on the streets as a stranger, once again no blood relationship, no one would blink twice at your getting together, but the second they see that meeting and you add the word "step, or adopted, sister" well now it's as close to a bank robbery as you can come without actually robbing the bank. You are no less or more "strangers" in a genetic sense, but suddenly society gets the mood to tell others how to live because you add the word sibling, after something that indicates non genetic ties. Perhaps my main problem is what was said, society is trying to tell two people that are essentially strangers how to live, when if they had met as strangers on the street society likely would have given their blessing for a happy union.
Genetically if objections are raised fine that is both understandable and reasonable since there are proven reasons, genetically to show why such a relationship is dangerous. Yet if they are in a non-genetic relationship in any format but perhaps especially within a fiction format, I continually fail to see reasonable objections to it's existance, for now just within that fiction format, beyond perceptions people hold of how things should be, keeping in mind simply because someone thinks something should be someway does not mean it has to be that way.
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[This message has been edited by SCDawg (edited 07-12-2004).]
