lolface -“now that doesn’t sound platonic to me.
halacha, incidentally, reflects this to a degree. without parents in the house, it is assur for a brother and sister to live together for more than a week or two (the exact time frame is debated by poskim).
A BROTHER AND SISTER???? can you imagine? well halacha can”
I’m sorry I have to make a Machoh. It’s hard to tell the way you go back and forth, but it seems that you hold you can’t have a platonic relationship with your siblings. You will have to forgive me if this isn’t what you meant. But this is the impression I got from you. If this is what you’re saying, then you should know you are being Megaleh Ponim B’Torah Shelo K’Halacha. You know what Chazal say about this, don’t you?
You seem to be bringing a Rayah from the Chumash for Halacha. I just recently posted you can’t do that.
“as the most sensible person for you to marry would be a close relation, SUCH AS A BROTHER MARRYING A SISTER!”
You put it all in Capitals, like it is a Chiddush. Well any learned person knows this was commonly done before Matan Torah. I’m pretty sure it says the Shefotim were all born with a female twin, so they had whom to marry.
“now isn’t that fascinating? (puts a whole new spin on why touching derech chiba is, according to (i believe most if not all) poskim, strictly forbidden outside of your mother and father.”
This implies (again it’s possible this isn’t what you mean) that there is some sort of Yetzer Hora for your siblings. This is totally wrong!
This is what I got from your whole post -that people have Yetzer Horas for their siblings. From the crying part (Bocheh L’Mishpichsove) and from the Yichud part. This seems to be your agenda. If it is, you should know – this is totally Am Haratzos! I’ll explain why -the Gemorrah says they blinded the Yetzer Hora for Arayos, which damaged it to create no more Yetzer Hora for relatives. Also the SA says in black and white – why you can’t have that Chiba with others besides parents to children & kids to parents, even though there are no feelings, because we don’t come close to Arayos period!