• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There’s nothing objectively wrong with either one. Both have been banned because they gross people out for purely social (bigoted) reasons.

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      7 months ago

      Incorrect. One results in higher than normal birth defects that exacerbate over time, and one is perfectly healthy. We, as a society, should try to limit birth defects, no? Are you also in favor of bringing back thalidomide?

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        7 months ago

        Out of curiosity, are you chill with incest if the couple is incapable of biological reproduction? (They’re the same sex, one or both has been sterilized, ect.)

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          7 months ago

          that’s not true, and false equivalencies only serve to make you seem more ridiculous. You’re gross, and your kink is historically shamed because it destroys us a viable species. I feel sorry for the people in your life.

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                7 months ago

                I just misremembered. But my point still stands. You want to ban women over 34 having children?

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                  7 months ago

                  no, I don’t. you seem pretty intent on trying to make me tho. banning first cousin marriages doesn’t lead to us banning all pregnancies began after the mother is 34. you’re using a logical fallacy of the slippery slope and it doesn’t apply.

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                    7 months ago

                    It’s not a slippery slope, it’s the exact same thing. The same excuse you use for banning incest equally applies to women over 34 giving birth. Banning that would not be a slippery slope, it would be an equivalence.

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          7 months ago

          continued procreation within the family destroys the viability of the offspring eventually. This is not something to be encouraged.

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        7 months ago

        One results in higher than normal birth defects that exacerbate over time, and one is perfectly healthy.

        Are you for any law preventing people more likely than average to produce offspring with defects from reproducing, or just cousins?