Moral Choices

'Today year 9 we're going to start a new topic, we're going to be looking at what Morality is about and what affects our Moral Beliefs'. I've started this sentence three times already this week- all of them on Tuesday! But it's a topic I talk about ALL the time. New Year consisted of meeting up with some friends from uni and discussing some moral issues in our favourite soaps :-) so the latest topic for discussion amongst us...Beth and Rhys of course- what a fantastic story line! They fall madly in love with each other and want to introduce their friends and family to this new amazing person. And then Rhys gets some bad news...his dad (who he thought was his uncle up until a couple of months ago) has died. To make it worse, his new soul mate is nowhere to be found. Completely messed up he nearly doesn't make the funeral but decides he has to go. So he turns up and his 'dad' (uncle really) introduces him to the sister he never knew about...Beth.
It's just brilliant, they've tried staying away from each other, they've both got into other relationships they don't want to be in, but they can't get the other one out of their head. Incest....wrong every time? New year, after a few drinks became a greatly animated discussion. A subject we shouldn't be seen (especially me in my professional capacity as a Catholic RE teacher) to be in favour of, but would it really, really be so wrong if they got together? Sure they'd have to move, go somewhere where no one knows the situation. Most felt they had a responsibility to not have children- but to deny true love, who has that right?! I know I know, it's just a soap, but ethics is life- and although I haven't the slightest intentions of running off with my half brother, I can't help but find issues like this fascinating :-)