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| prejudged_FireIt does to me, and hopefully to any other sane person who wants to have a healthy child. Besides, these are the risks for relations with your cousin, not your sister, which is what you asked in the OP.
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Don't take the OP literary this is about the incest law which covers up to 1st cousins.
Degenerative genes can be passed on even in normal marriage, the risks can be tested for so if approached intelligently then there is little risk.
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So because the rest of the world is doing it, America should too? What was that thing my mom always used to tell me, something about jumping off a bridge?
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I am not asking america to. all I am saying is this seems to be another case of lazy moral conservatism in america rather than a logical sensible approach to marriage.
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Or at least try to be consistent when arguing against gay marriage.
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It is relative to the topic in that you can not even argue consistency within your laws.
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Not sure, but according to my former Christian faith, God allowed incest at first when there wasn't much of anyone else around to mate with. After the population grew to a certain extent, it was no longer necessary and thus forbidden.
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Ok so either your laws are based on christian faith or it is a yuck factor.