Talk:Devil Bug/@comment-5426290-20150109001945/@comment-213.119.32.191-20150109195257

Party's right, incest really is one of the most sick sexual preferences there is, period. Not only because we humans consider it morally wrong, but it's one of the few that pretty much goes against nature itself. One that even a creature without morals will have to accept that it cannot work, purely on the scientific level.

Incest is extremely damaging to a species, regardless of its morals. The lack of genetic variation will quickly damage the offspring beyond help, causing them to be born more and more handicapped until they can't reproduce anymore.

While I wouldn't be surprised that the DL "conveniently" made mamono immune to inbreeding, it's still extremely selfish for her and her mamono force it upon humans. One of the things a majority of humans finds sickening beyond belief.

Thing is, in IRL, part of the reason incest rarely happens because of the Westermarck effect. Problem is, with different standards, uncontrollable lust and an animalistic mentality, Devil Bugs and other mamono tend not to be affected by it.

Normally, this would pose a problem when it comes to coexisting between any factions. The MGE deals with it, IMHO, rather lazily; force one group to unconditionally accept the standards of another. It's kinda sad that the DL and Mamono don't want to conform to any standards beyond their own, and really don't seem care about the opinion their "beloved" humans have; yet their own standards used to be different until "someone" forced them to unconditionally accept the standards of her kind.

This sheer despicable and selfish hypocrisy of the DL and the Mamono, as well as their refusal to compromise prevents me from ever seeing them (in canon) as the outright "good guys".

But I digress.

I know KC tries to add several fetishes into his work, and cater to as much people as possible but was this one really necessary? I mean, he retconned mamono killing people, which is fine, but then he retconned them into being that depraved that murder hardly seems that horrible anymore. Especially since several mamono love to give you a "fate worse than death". Likewise, if fans often requested the possibility, then he probably should have left it at that. "Mamono won't say no to it if offered" would still be slightly more acceptable than "Mamono may likely force it upon you". I hope that KC can eventually find a happy medium between a "free love" world and a reasonable utopian world, in a way that most of his fans will be satisfied. Because there's only so much you head canon can differ from actual canon.

Now, I know that several RL cultures will accept love between cousins, but that's where they tend to draw the line. Anything closer than that tends to be a big taboo to most people.