And that's important. We all think that Barb has dementia, but we don't *know*. There's all sorts of cases where we can have arguments about the individual aspects.
- Should people with dementia just be forced to be celibate for the rest of their lives? Even if it's a couple that's been married for 50 years? Is two people with dementia fucking somehow ok? If just one person in the couple gets dementia do both now have to be celibate for the rest of their lives?
- Is non-fertile incest illegal only because it's fucking disgusting? Can we ban things just because they're disgusting?
- The weird clown world rule of consent where it's still rape if you ever said no, even if you changed your mind a few minutes later and said yes, but then can retroactively go back and say that you were "pressured to change your mind therefore the first no still stands". In a way that for some reason is not reflected in how consent works in literally any other activity? (Bob: "Hey let's go get pizza." Alice: "No I don't want pizza." Bob: "Awww c'mon it'll be tasty!" Alice: "

OK I guess". Alice: "I hated that pizza. I said NO! You coerced and groomed me into eating that pizza!")
Coupled with our general disgust, given the thought of *anyone* fucking even a perfectly-lucid Snorlax feeling like a crime against the universe itself, we all feel Chris has crossed a moral event horizon here and it's beyond fucked up. At the same time though I have to question about Barb's level of consent. Even if she's a bit out of it, if she genuinely was okay with it I think -- as sick as it is -- it's worth raising the question if it was truly something that should be illegal in the same way that people who are into shitplay should or should not be prosecuted.
I want Chris to be in a facility for a long time, but I have a deeply-ingrained aversion to prosecuting people just for being degenerates. This hinges on whether or not Barb has dementia, how big of a factor that should be, and how much Barb's desires came into play here. I'm still struck by all the times Barb begged/demanded Chris come into her bed in that really creepy tone. (Remember back when we were worried that Barb really would make the first move and try to manipulate CHRIS into incest?)
Of course, incest is flat out illegal in Virginia regardless of philosophical discussions. I just think there *may* be more culpability on Barb's end than we're assuming.