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| Incest a 'fundamental right', German committee says |
| 2014-09-27 |
| [TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said the they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. Nothin' wrong with your family tree looking like a hat rack, is there? "Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo," the German Ethics Council said in a statement. "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." What if the "fundamental right of sexual self-determination" includes a fondness for humping corpses? Nobody's "hurt" in process. The humper gets his jollies and the humpee's already beyond all cares and woe. So that should be legal, too. And fish are said not to feel pain like we do, so they should be fair game (so to speak), though I do believe that anyone who has sex with a fish less than 36 inches long is a pervert. Their intervention follows a notorious case in which a brother and sister living as partners in Saxony had four children together. The couple had been raised separately and only met when the brother, identified only as Patrick S, was an adult, and his sister Susan K was 16. "Say, baby! Ain 't I seen you someplace before?" Patrick S was sentenced to more than three years in prison for incest and the couple have since failed in their bid to have the guilty verdict overturned by the European Court of Human Rights. I'd think the fundamental question to be asked there would be: Did he know he was diddling Sis? Or was she just an attractive and slightly underage stranger? The family was forced to live apart after the courts ruled that there was a duty to protect their children from the consequences of their relationship. Protecting helpless little kiddies for violations of social taboos would seem to lie within the province of at least local government. Two of the couple's children are disabled, and it is believed that incest carries a higher risk of resulting in children with genetic abnormalities. Empirical evidence would seem to back up that belief, wouldn't it? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 So it's a "fundamental right" to have sex with your sister, but it's illegal to homeschool those disabled kids. Sure, that makes sense. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2014-09-27 18:30 |
| #10 The elites are wanting to try their hand at genetic engineering like the Bene Gesserit......or the Tleilaxu. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-09-27 15:57 |
| #9 Perhaps they are trying to re-attract the ISJV recruits. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-27 14:55 |
| #8 "social taboo" there's a very valid genetic reason behind it being "taboo". To endorse stupidity of this level is extremely dumb. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-09-27 14:39 |
| #7 36" minimum fish seems pretty arbitrary. Don't be so judgemental |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-27 13:51 |
| #6 This is what happens when you believe you get your rights from the government instead of God. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2014-09-27 12:41 |
| #5 I almost wanna snark something about Woody Allen but I remember when I could laugh at his stuff without being reminded of the shit he's done. Damnit. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-09-27 12:21 |
| #4 And they mocked the 'slippery slope' arguments. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-27 09:17 |
| #3 If she ain't good enough fer her own family how could she be good enough for others? |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-09-27 09:16 |
| #2 Hell, just move to |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-09-27 09:05 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-09-27 07:20 |