Is the Moral choice always the right choice?

Real world scenario 1. You discover that the person you have been dating is in fact your sibling, one or both of you were adopted at birth. You have not yet had sex, but were going to soon. Do you:

Adjust your relationship to that of chaste siblings and welcome your new family member?

Recognise the chemistry between you and initiate a physical relationship but not a deeper emotional one. Siblings with benefits.

Why should being related stop you from finding love? Keep going, even to the point of having children together.

Real world scenario 1.b. Same as above, but you don't discover the sibling relationship until after your 2nd child.

You immediately separate and can no longer even be in the same room with each other. The children go with one parent with little or no contact with the other.

You immediately separate and can no longer even be in the same room with each other. The children go with one parent but have fairly good visitation rights with the other.

You remain living together for the sake of the children, but move your relationship to being strictly platonic.

After x number of years together, why should this change anything?

Real world scenario 2. You are a woman who as a fifteen year old girl had a child you were told did not survive the birth. 18 years later you are successful in your professional life and finally devote time to beginning a family. You start dating a younger man only to discover you were lied to as a teen and your lover is in fact your son.

You break off your physical relationship and welcome him as your son.

Unable to bear the shame of what you have done you refuse to see him ever again, in any way.

You maintain your physical relationship but keep an eye out for a new step-father.

Your son will become his own stepfather and father his own siblings.

Real world scenario 2b. As above but you don't discover you are your husband's mother until after your second child together.

You immediately separate and can no longer even be in the same room with each other. The children go with one parent with little or no contact with the other.

You immediately separate and can no longer even be in the same room with each other. The children go with one parent but have fairly good visitation rights with the other.

You remain living together for the sake of the children, but move your relationship to being strictly platonic.

After x number of years together, why should this change anything?

In the above two scenarios, if there are children, what do you tell them about the nature of your relationship?

Nothing. They must never find out.

Nothing unless they discover it themselves. Then they are to know only that it should never have happened, but you love them (the children ) anyway. They are not to follow your example.

Once they are old enough to understand, voluntary disclosure. Your relationship should never have happened and you stopped once you knew. They are not to follow your example.

Once they are old enough to understand, voluntary disclosure. Your relationship should never have happened but once begun you chose to continue. They are not to follow your example.

Once they are old enough to understand, voluntary disclosure. Your relationship should never have happened but once begun you chose to continue. They can chose for themselves who to love.

Real world scenario 3. Your 16 year old child has been diagnosed with an untreatable illness and has only months to live. You do the last wish thing expecting to hear 'visit Disneyland', drive an F1, meet celebrity XXXX. But instead your teen wants to lose their virginity. But not a one night stand.

Absolutely not. Pick something else.

Assist them in gaining the attention of their crush and then help the relationship until they're ready to rent a room.

They're only a couple of years short of legal, surely there's a classy escort somewhere willing to bend the law and romance your kid.

The favourite Aunt/Uncle could probably be convinced, and you can trust them to do the right thing...

Who better than you and/or your spouse to properly show your teen how to make love.

Same scenario as above, but this time your child is only 14.

Absolutely not. Pick something else.

Assist them in gaining the attention of their crush and then help the relationship until they're ready to rent a room.

The favourite Aunt/Uncle/older sibling could probably be convinced, and you can trust them to do the right thing...

Who better than you and/or your spouse to properly show your teen how to make love.

Same as above, but now the child is under 12.

Absolutely not. Pick something else.

The favourite Aunt/Uncle/older sibling could probably be convinced, and you can trust them to do the right thing...

Who better than you and/or your spouse to properly show your child how to make love.

Real world scenario 4. Rape is a horrible traumatic experience. Even more so when it happens to a child. Your child is raped by someone other than your or your spouse. After justice is served your child asks to be shown the difference between what they went through and actual intimacy.

You ply them off with platitudes. "You'll find someone when you're older."

Show them 'soft porn' with a romantic bent.

Show them explicit porn with a romantic bent.

You and your spouse demonstrate live for your child to see and ask questions.

You and your spouse demonstrate increasing levels of intimacy over time for your child to see and ask questions about to gradually introduce a good idea of it while hoping not to have to do a full demonstration.

You and/or your spouse gradually become more intimate with your child so they can feel firsthand what physical love should be, while hoping not to have to go all the way.

You and/or your spouse make love to your child so they can feel firsthand what physical love should be.

Real(ish) world scenario 4b. The voyeuristic rapist. Seen in fiction, both written and on primetime television, but I've not seen any actual accounts, this rapist gets off on watching others being forced to do something shameful to each other. Most commonly this is portrayed as forced incest. You and a family member are this rapist's victims.

You constantly protest what's happening, giving in to your shame and revulsion, unintentionally giving the rapist what he wants and possibly adding to your 'partner's emotional trauma.

You lay back and 'think of England' denying the rapist his enjoyment, but delaying the shame and guilt until later.

You decide to stick it to him and enjoy yourselves. After all, you do love your 'partner', so reducing possible trauma for you both is a good idea, right?

Afterword, your fellow victim wants to do it with you again.

Absolutely not. And it must never be spoken of again.

Absolutely not. But you agree it is something to be discussed, probably in counselling.

Very well, once only to re-establish your relationship and replace bad memories with better ones.

It did feel good. You become recurring lovers, but open to new/existing relationships with spouses and other future lovers.

It did feel good. You become lovers, exclusive to each other.

Fictional Scenario 1. In 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', the four Pevensie children spend 15 years in Narnia. They grow up, become adults and presumably do all those things that adults do before suddenly becoming children again. Early bedtimes, orders from adults and no alcohol are once again real parts of their lives. As one of the elder two (Peter or Susan) would you:

Avoid alcohol

Sneak some in when your parents aren't looking.

Maturity level.

Act your physical age. (13-Peter, 12-Susan)

Act your mental age. (28/27)

Sex

Return to the abstinence expected of your youth.

Try and find a willing and discrete adult, thereby preserving the innocence of your peers.

Seduce and corrupt one of your peers with your adult experience.

Have sex with one of the only other people who understand your dilemma, preserving the innocence of your peers, but committing incest.

As either Edmund or Lucy, you:

Avoid alcohol

Sneak some in when your parents aren't looking.

Maturity level

Act your physical age (10-Edmund 8-Lucy)

Act your mental age (25/23)

Sex

Return to the abstinence expected of your youth.

Try and find a willing and discrete adult, thereby preserving the innocence of your peers. Also very physically challenging, given your comparative sizes.

Seduce and corrupt one of your peers with your adult experience.

Have sex with one of the only other people who understand your dilemma, preserving the innocence of your peers, but committing incest.

Fictional Scenario 2. You and your spouse, after a long and sexually rewarding life together, wake up back in time as your ten year old selves. You still live near each other and want to continue your emotional relationship.

You are children once again and should behave as such. No sex until society says you can. Sex is not essential to a healthy relationship.

You are children once again and should behave as such. No sex until society says you can. Even if that puts your relationship at risk.

Gradually increasing levels of intimacy to keep your relationship alive, but nothing to really alarm any adults.

As adults you had the physical, intellectual and emotional maturity to accept sex and everything that goes with it. As long as no one gets pregnant before graduation, nothing should change.

To hell with caution, teen mother incoming...

Fictional Scenario 3. You travel back in time and accidentally cause the death/disappearance of your father/mother who you look just like.

You do nothing, thus negating your own existence.

You seduce your own mother/father, ensuring your own conception.