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user-inactivated  ·  2902 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How I Pretended to Bang My Brother & Exposed Several Unethical Journalists in the Process

If you were to talk to a child about it, what things you'd tell them are definitely important, what are definitely not, and how wide the grey area is?





oyster  ·  2902 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Things that affect your life = important, things that affect the lives of people you care about = important, things that have the ability to affect the way the world works = important. Who somebody is screwing = unimportant, whether or not somebody is actually sleeping with the person they say they are = unimportant because as we learnt before who somebody is screwing = unimportant.

That's basically it.

user-inactivated  ·  2902 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm going beyond the scope of the article.

What about incest (both in terms of "who sleeps with whom" and "what about the potential offspring")?