Comment on Tennessee legislature passes bill banning marriage between first cousins
hikaru755@feddit.de 7 months agoBut there are enough situations where it is easily known, even without genetic testing. I’m only talking about those. Why shouldn’t those be criminalized then, too?
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It shouldn’t be. I was referring to direct family incest, where the risk of genetic disorders is 50%.
hikaru755@feddit.de 7 months ago
Well in your original comment you were just talking about “incest” generally, and then going on to mention you marrying your first cousin as a hypothetical example. That made it seem like you would want a child coming out of that relationship to be criminalized, and that’s what I was responding to. For direct siblings it might indeed be another matter.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yes, in my original comment I did mean that. But one commentator gave the statistics of genetic disorders for kids born out of first cousins. After researching that a little, I changed my mind and wrote about it in a reply to that comment.