Dear friends,
The main taboos that are most necessary for any civilization to exist are murder and incest. "Thou shall not kill" may remind one of the first of the Ten Commandments; however, without such a prohibition a killer would soon realize that someone could commit the same offense against him or her until there are no people left.
The next precept, whether for purely moral or medical reasons regarding either the psychological harm to victims or the genealogical problems for the offspeing of such an affair is incest.
Moreover, the sad part is: considering all of the murder during wars and punishment by governments, much less for domestic violence, robbery, and revenge, the prohibition against murder, especially in the United States, is ineffective to put it mildly. Worse yet, since the consequences for committing murder make, at least, some people think twice about doing it ,but does not deter either many individuals or governments, then the less punitive sanctions for the crime of incest must make that offense occur far more frequently than murder. Additionally, a great deal of the incest has to do with sexism, since – like rape - it seems to happen to exponentially more females than males.
At any rate, on the link below, award-winning journalist Jenice Armstrong of the Philadelphia Daily News provides us with some information that may inspire victims to address this unconscionable behavior here-to- mentioned.
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20090924_Jenice_Armstrong__Too_much_tell-all.html
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