Why is Incest illegal in the UK?

Well for anyone who says it should be illegal for the reason that their children will have a higher chance of getting certain disabilities, would you then also say it should be illegal for people with serious inheritable diseases to have kids?

If not, then why are they any different?

Using that logic, nuclear warfare, genetic modification and petrochemical products are all natural.

No. Anything produced by humans is described as artificial.

You should really learnt the definitions of words before lecturing people.

It's just one of those relics, like the fact that the PM is not allowed to be a Catholic.

LOL @ you thinking your rational. The person you quoted explicitly mentions not causing harm to other people.

The kids that the parents produced, have an astronomically higher chance of having a genetic disease/disability. That is harm to other peolple.

You sir, are an idiot.

however practically incest is strongly associated with
family members sexually abusing their younger siblings and or offspring

It's just one of those relics, like the fact that the PM is not allowed to be a Catholic.

You know what, maybe I am narrow minded, because this is something I would never accept.

The question: How would you feel if your brother and sister told you they had been having sex?
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Would you have sex with your brother/sister,mother/father if you "loved" them.

Well, this is an unusual angle on human relationships.

Meet Patrick and Susan. A young couple, and in love, with four children. However their life was torn apart when the state and society deemed their relationship "unnatural" and "immoral", and imprisoned them both. This was because they just happened to be brother and sister.

Patrick and Susan were jailed repeatedly for one crime, loving each other. Since then their children have been forced into care, and the lovers were separated from them and each other for many years.

How can anyone argue this is moral? Who has the right to say that a consensual relationship is wrong?

Discuss.



Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6424937.stm

I'd probably be a bit shocked, once I got used to it I'd advise them to keep it to themselves before a mob turns up at the front door with pitchforks and burning torches and lynches them.



I do love my family, but not sexually. If I was sexually attracted to them then the answer is pretty obvious.

Testimony? What? If I was screwing my sister there would be no family relationship. It would be more of a girlfriend relationship, which is different. And no testimony says 'I feel so close to my brother like he is family!' Just the opposite, they feel sexually close. That's because it's impossible for the two to coexist.

And Freud's theories are not fact. Regardless, some form of repressed sexual tendencies are just that, repressed. They do not actively prevent the formation of a family bond.

But on reading your other posts you are clearly trolling. Just go wack off to your mother already.

For all the plausible arguments about genetic disease we're hearing, we're also hearing a lot of arguments against this that were commonly used against homosexuality (and still are). "It's unnatural!", "It's just wrong!", "It's never found in nature!"

Humans shouldnt be allowed to roam free and do whatever the hell they want. If incest ever became legal then you can bet that the majority of people will be very angry. Any sick individual that engages in incestuous relationships needs some serious mental help.