You're leaving out the fact that the article is mostly about not knowing, how there is an increased risk of meeting an unknown sibling, and that the information should be available for those who would mind on any level. Choosing to be with someone regardless of what others think isn't the same as accidentally doing so because of ignorance.
Aside from that, we have many laws that aren't exactly fair, but this is one that actually makes sense on genetic issues.
So weird. "Hi, I am an AI kid, are you sure you're not my brother? May I see your credentials?"
Well, I really wasn't commenting on the article or the sperm donor thing at all. The talk in the comments about who are and aren't allowed to have children and how the reasons and justifications for it are obvious to everyone just rubbed me the wrong way. I like consistency and hate hypocrisy. I also think injustice is injustice, even when the only ones who suffer are a tiny, tiny minory that disgust everyone else. And I don't think the fact there are and always will be laws that are unfair means we shouldn't complain about the laws that are unfair. Call me crazy.
One Sperm Donor, 150 sons and daughters
- 09/09/2011 09:13:14 PM
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Back in the 80's we used to call it "Being a Rock Star". *NM*
- 10/09/2011 12:27:35 AM
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"We?" *NM*
- 10/09/2011 01:36:16 AM
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It's this cool new term I just came up with. It means "myself and other people."
- 10/09/2011 01:50:26 AM
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Yet, if they didn't know they were siblings then they wouldn't be bound by the incest taboo.
- 10/09/2011 03:16:45 AM
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Yes, but the taboo has a rationale behind it.
- 10/09/2011 08:13:01 AM
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Are people with actually diagnosed genetic defects "allowed" to have children? *NM*
- 10/09/2011 12:41:56 PM
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yeah they are allowed
- 10/09/2011 10:22:24 PM
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Of course they are allowed, but why?
- 11/09/2011 01:38:57 AM
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I see where you are going with this, but
- 11/09/2011 08:07:45 PM
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Incest is that fragrant smoke, right?
- 11/09/2011 10:40:28 PM
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I was just making the point that the incest taboo is a societal construct. Thus...
- 12/09/2011 05:37:26 AM
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