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German Ethics Council: Incest is a Fundamental Right.
Laws banning sexual relations between siblings may get the boot if the German Ethics Committee has its way. “Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the advisory committee said in a statement released Wednesday. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.” The Committee’s declaration follows a case famous in Germany about a sister and brother who had four children together. They didn’t meet until the sister was 16 and the brother was an adult. They were forced to live separately and the brother served three years in prison for incest. A spokeswoman for Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrats said the government was unlikely to adopt the recommendation. According to the Max Planck Institute, 2 to 4 percent of Germans have had “incestuous relations.” - DB Summary.
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forgetting laws and so on incest is bad for the genetic pool. However if its like an isolated (as in not successive generations) case the negative impacts are minimal (or so i remember reading once). I don't really think it's something that should be encouraged to much but ultimately I don't really care whos porking who.
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Wait all right with all that, but there's something that just doesn't sound right with going directly from "not illegal" to "fundamental right" as a general approach.
That would be like saying that cheating on your partner is a fundamental right. Or having sex with minors above the age of consent, or BDSM. Not stuff that people should be legally punished for, but neither something that should be especially protected by law either.
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The wagon wheels of family trees. there is a reason the majority of European royal (and former noble) families have high counts of haemophilia.
Makes me think of Crusader Kings 2, marrying a kinswoman to your son because she has the genius trait!
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On the case, i guess we should still keep it as a taboo, but prosecute and jail someone for it would be too much. I'm talking about consent case of course.
But 2 to 4 percent of Germans have had “incestuous relationship? Isn't that number ridiculous high? O_O
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I see no problem with it as long as no children are produced. If they plan on having children though that's another matter, children with birth defects are a constant financial drain on society. Genetic screening should be mandatory if cousins plan on having children, and only if they receive a green light should they be allowed to go through with it. Sister/brother, mother/son, father/daughter breeding is far too risky and I have no problem with people receiving jail time for it, adoption is difficult but it exists for a reason.
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Genetics aside - which is the most serious issue-, its social impact is too hard to ignore. People are free to do whatever they want, really, but some things just don't feel right...and I say this is one of those things that is against a person's most fundamental ethics.
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Maybe if the government can downgrade the punishment part and provide the much needed support . Like free consultant and etc, we could actually reduce risks of birth defect (with artificial insemination perhaps)? Or even sort a few case out where things got murky because they have no one to discuss with?
I think social taboo already a big enough fence. Don't think extra punishment will help that much as deterring tool And even if it can, the cost seems to be fairly high as well
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