Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Because although as adults, there’s a strong supposition that they’re free to do what they want, I think that the problem is that when they’re not adults, the fact that later on they can have sex — and worse, between, say, a stepfather and a stepdaughter or an uncle and a niece — the idea that sex is a possibility in the future when they’re adults corrodes the relationship early on. Does that make sense? This is my utilitarian attempt to try to do a cost-benefit analysis for what you are going to accuse me of having a disgust reaction. I think you have a disgust reaction. That’s fine. It sounds to me like an argument that it’s imprudent, which can slide into morally wrong, but I still think there’s something out of sync between the strength of our disgust reaction and the degree of moral wrongness it has. I think that’s right. I think that if that was my argument, say, making this ratchet it up a bit and make it a relationship between a father and an adult daughter and —…

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