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If this was happening where I lived, I would care about the potential impacts on the community from the possibility of an increase in genetic disorders of children born from such a union. Including increased stress on Healthcare, increased mortality rates during childbirth, increased citizens on government assistance, etc. Not saying these things would happen, but I would care enough to look into it.
There's also the impact on reputation resulting from one of the states leaders thinking this was an important enough issue to create a bill for, and then the impact on reputation if it gets enough votes to pass. Would the opinions surrounding morality and / or reproductive rights carry less weight? Could it even sway people away from the side taken by Kentucky just because it is the side Kentucky is on?
Well keep in mind the odds of a birth defects from first cousins is the same as a women over 40 have kids at all. But i don't see applying that argument to this case.
Maybe I could have been more clear, but you seem to have inferred a different argument than what was intended.
The original comment was asking "who cares". My response was intended to say anybody that anybody in the jurisdiction of any bill / law should care enough to educate themselves on the potential impacts and not merely consider the surface level impacts on themselves as an individual.
Policing other people's possible genetic disorders sounds a bit like eugenics. Should we also make it illegal for autistic people to breed?
So we would also conclude abortion bans are eugenics then? I mean fine be free to fuck your cousin, if we agree on the government having no place in our bedrooms. But surely sex crimes should be prosecuted then.. as this bill also wants to provide leniency to those offenses down to age 12...
My intent was to answer your question "who cares" question. Now it I see that you care.
People should care about laws that are and are not imposed on others, especially if they are in a position to voice support or opposition to those laws.