In New Mexico, a woman and her son are fighting in the courts for their “right” to a sexual relationship. Monica Mares and her son were separated when she gave him up for adoption, but fell in love when they were reunited. Monica has said she is willing to go to prison and, indeed, give up custody of her other eight children if need be; the case has sparked a discussion of the next bastion of “marriage equality”: “consanguinamorous” marriage.
Aristotle once wrote that “a small mistake in the beginning is multiplied later a thousandfold”. He was criticising Plato’s approach to ethics and the soul, which he saw as too concerned with parts of the human being and not enough concerned with the whole. Those who take his dictum seriously, especially as it relates to human beings in the area of love, sex and marriage, should not be too surprised by the above story.
