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| Topic | Is there any form of marriage you oppose? |
| adjl 09/27/17 11:44:22 PM #49: | fuzi11 posted... incestuous - nope. birth defects and what not. I'm playing the nature card now. Nature truly does not intend to create inbreeds. I'm inclined to disregard the nature angle against incest because there are just so many ways to work around it now. Genetic testing can confirm just what the risks are far better than any guess based on consanguinity estimates can, and even when the risks are confirmed to be high, marriage doesn't have to involve biological children anyway (either not having kids, surrogacy, or adoption). Yeah, nature doesn't like inbreeding, which is why most people have the Westermarck effect, but in cases where that's deficient, there doesn't have to be any actual harm. Just a couple extra hoops to jump through. That, and making it illegal on the basis of the child's genetic health is logically the same as restricting people with confirmed genetic disorders from reproducing, which is pretty shaky territory. There are certainly arguments to be made in favour of such restrictions, so that approach isn't completely invalid, but that is something you need to consider before taking this approach, if you want to be logically consistent. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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