I didn't see your evaluation of the test, but I did remember that one question, and that my actual answer was None of the Above, which the test didn't allow for, of course.
About illicit drugs, the laws that make drugs illicit seem to be working about as well as Prohibition did. I wonder if the billions spent on chasing and imprisoning people for drug offenses could be more constructively spent in another way. I'd like to be safe. Are the drug laws making me safer?
As for incest, there are very good reasons for it to remain taboo. If it were treated casually (and the media are casualizing it, which will inevitably weaken the taboo) the barrier between "consenting adult incest" and exploitative incest (a parent is always in a power position over a child, for example, even an 18 year old or 28 year old child) would weaken. There are very good reasons, social and genetic, not to treat incest as legitimate behavior, or to "normalize" it by treating it casually when the parties involved are adults. The issue then becomes age (as for example in the age of a brother and sister, or of a daughter) -- as though it's like having a beer -- and not the absolutely taboo status of the act. Anything but attaching the strongest social opprobrium to incest is very dangerous to children and to the healthiness of families, imo.
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