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-9 Post author: h-H 06 June 2012 07:57PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 June 2012 06:00:27PM *  8 points [-]

I think laws forbidding cousin marriage are unfair and should be the next target of civil rights activism. Incest laws in general makes no sense except as a eugenics measure. Either we dump these laws or we judge all eugenic measures that rise above it in the cost-benefit metric as acceptable. Else we are just picking and tormenting loving couples because of some historic baggage.

And where is the transhumanist spirit? Technology lets a brother and a sister have as healthy a baby as anyone else's.

Edit: Added the eugenic argument, I originally didn't think I would need to.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 June 2012 07:28:45PM *  1 point [-]

Did you edit in “except as a eugenics measure” after gwern's comment?

Comment author: [deleted] 08 June 2012 05:25:06AM *  2 points [-]

Yes. Because I originally didn't think people here would need that explicitly argued against. I will make the edict explicit.