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As crazy as I think it is, I don't think incest should be illegal. Nor should polygamy be illegal.
As long as they are consenting adults, I don't see the problem.
It's not my place to push my morals onto other individuals.
I tend to agree, but the issue of grooming (brainwashing) muddies the waters with incest, even among adults. It's not clear to me that a young adult who was deliberately groomed from a very early age to believe that he/she is expected to have a sexual relationship with his/her parent is free as an adult to choose to do so (or to not do so) in the same sense that someone who was not groomed in such a way is free to choose to do so. In most of these cases I highly doubt there wasn't anything inappropriate happening at a young age.
But I do hear occasionally of cases where a parent/child are reunited as adults after being separated at birth who end up having a sexual relationship. Grooming obviously wouldn't be an issue then. But I still suspect these relationships are emblematic of other emotional/mental health issues going on....but not unethical.