[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? |