• @shalafi
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    -738 months ago

    Removed by mod

    • @RedditWanderer
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      428 months ago

      What’s your point?

      We’re literally saying it makws no sense that this ban would get pushback. The fact so many other states allow it just makes the point.

      Americans are weird when it comes to cousins…

      • NoIWontPickAName
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        -118 months ago

        Why does it matter who’s fucking who?

        Aren’t we in the middle of a big ass motherfucking fight for people to be able to be with who they want to be with, minus adults and children?

        • @Frozengyro
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          318 months ago

          To prevent abuse, and to limit the chances of children being born with serious medical problems they will have to suffer with for the rest of their life.

          • @Cryophilia
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            -58 months ago

            Risk of genetic defects from cousins is very small, on par with a woman giving birth over age 30.

            And “to prevent abuse”? We already have lots of laws to address that.

            Stop telling people who they’re allowed to sleep with.

            • @jpreston2005
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              118 months ago

              dude, stop trying to fuck your cousin. it’s not cool.

              • @Cryophilia
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                -28 months ago

                And it’s not your business, or the government’s business.

                Besides, not my fault you got uggo cousins

                • @yuriy
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                  38 months ago

                  the troll to cousinfucker pipeline really goes hard these days, huh?

                  • @Cryophilia
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                    -18 months ago

                    Who cares? Get government out of the bedroom.

        • NoIWontPickAName
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          38 months ago

          When the fuck did we start being pro stereotype?

          This is another big fight that I remember us being in the middle of right now.

    • Cruxifux
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      188 months ago

      If those states allow first cousin marrying then yeah, that’s cousin fucker states.

      Most of the world doesn’t live in the states man, did you think naming other states was going to offend people? You guys and all your weird hillbilly sex stuff need to get your shit together man. It’s embarrassing to see.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s legal in most of the world, including most of Europe. I don’t think legality is necessarily the greatest guide for how often it actually happens or social attitudes towards it.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage

        There’s a map in there too of prevalence though and United States isn’t anywhere close to the most prevelant, it’s extremely rare. What’s going on down in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium though?

        • Cruxifux
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          88 months ago

          Ya know, there’s definitely some towns where I’m from that have shallow gene pools, not gonna lie. But I live in Alberta, we’re sometimes the Texas of Canada, and sometimes the Alabama.

            • Cruxifux
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              28 months ago

              Yeah. Pretty much everything south of Calgary and north of Edmonton is Alabama. I’ve lived in every city in the province, and worked in a lot of the towns. It’s pretty crazy in some of the towns here man.

        • @ripcord
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          48 months ago

          Holy crap, am I reading this right? In Pakistan, more than 50% of marriages are between cousins??

          • @[email protected]
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            48 months ago

            That chart technically includes second degree cousins and any closer relations. So if you don’t count second degree cousins it might be less. But yeah there’s a tradition of parellel cousin marriage especially in parts of the middle east, north Africa, and south Asia.

          • Cruxifux
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            -48 months ago

            Yeah I actually knew that one from when I used to listen to Joe Rogan and Gavin Mcinnes was on there. He’s a fucking goof but that fact was disturbing

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          Dunno about Belgium but Italy, Spain and Portugal have quite communal family structures, at least by European standards. Not necessarily in the living together sense but in the you’ll definitely see the whole extended shebang every other holiday sense.

      • @Fredselfish
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        18 months ago

        You read any classic novels from England? Marrying cousins is quite normal at one point in human history. I guess it still is in some backward states.

        • @RedditWanderer
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          28 months ago

          It’s not just England. Marrying cousins was considered common practice among royalty and nobles in the past, not “normal” for everyday people.

          They would inbreed to try to keep blood “pure”, or to keep the family in power, or to sell off their family for power. People knew a long time ago this was bad and caused health problems, but the rich kept doing it because theyre egoistical maniacs.

          We don’t have monarchs and royalty anymore, we can do away with inbreeding completely. The fact some conservatives still defend it is ridiculous.

    • @Malek061
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      48 months ago

      I’m from Alabama. This shit happens.

    • gregorum
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      18 months ago

      Except it’s actually illegal and all of those places, and has been for a long time.