Uelvan wrote:Anachronous Rex wrote:Which you still have no statistics on...
You think that incest causes hemophilia?
You are an expert at missing the point. Your prohibition does nothing to help. At. All.
It's not illegal to have sex with a sibling, or produce children with them. You can do that, currently, under the law.
What you can't do is marry them, even if you have no intention of of having children with each other.
This achieves exactly nothing, and makes a lot of people unhappy for no reason.
You're the one who brought up third cousins being the ideal spouse, you provide that statistic, I am going on the mutual fallacy principal, since I really can't be assed to look through it.
You want me to provide a statistic proving a point you think is irrelevant?
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~kgarbutt/QuantGen/Gen535_2_2004/Inbreeding_Humans.htm Read that little tid-bit about the inbred royalties having Haemophiliac children. While inbreeding doesn't always cause it, it greatly can increase the chance.
It didn't cause it at all. Genes periodically break, and hemophilia is caused by one such mutation. This can happen to anyone, incest has no effect upon it. The reason it pertains to inbreeding, is that, because the royal houses of Europe have children mostly with each other, one such mutation linked to Queen Victoria ended up being common amongst all of them. If they had ceased reproducing exclusively with each other, and started picking up commoners, it would not have stopped the spread of the hemophiliac gene, but it would have stopped it from spreading to the other royal houses.
Which is to say, you example demonstrates nothing about the danger of incest.
I'm not missing the point. My ban is a good way to enforce the act's illegality. I know laws are broken all the time, but taking away a law isn't going to fix it at all, now is it? Meanwhile, it gives society an reason to punish those who partake in the vile act.
It is not illegal. You can have sex with your sister currently, under the law. No one will stop you (unless you live in Iran or something.) You can even have children with her. You just can't marry her.
What is it exactly you fail to comprehend?