Sunday, March 04, 2007
I REFER to the article "Forbidden Love" (The New Paper Mar 4 2007, page 16-17)
This article has greatly sparked my interest, as it tells about a brother and sister defiantly commiting incest. Firstly, in this article it is mentioned that Patrick Stuebing was given up for adoption, and through a twist of events he had met up with his biological sister. They stayed in the same room nad were close to each other, and eventually had their son. Erik. Patrick did not stop there, he continued with more children and was severely punished by the law. The article also touched on another Malaysian couple who met and fell in love withou knowing they were siblings, and only found out the truth when they were to be married.
I strongly believe that incest is immoral and I find it utterly disgusting for one to commit incest. Patrick and his sister, even after knowing of their relationship as siblings continued to commit this crime. In my opinion he is not only showing disrespect to himself but also to his sister, if i were in his shoes i would have avoided coming into close contact with her, and i would definitely do my best to maintain a brother sister relationship, it seems that Patrick gave in to his human instincts and denied himself his morality. Thus, he deserves to be punished by the law.
On the other hand, the Malaysian couple, though having comitted incest, should not have been punished by the law. As this is an exception, they were unaware of the fact that they were siblings and thus cannot be blamed for the incident, I feel that it is unfair to them. Personally if i were to judge them, I would have issued them a warning, only then if they continue to commit the crime, shall they be punished accordingly.
The article also questioned us on wether we should lighten up on incest. I strongly believe we should not, though committing incest may not directly harm anyone, it would indirectly cause trouble to our society. Problems such as children of incest couples having a higher risk of developing severe mental and physical disabilities, may lead to these couples throwing away their children, and if everyone does that, there will be many homeless children and it will be a burden on the government to house this children. It would be inhumane to let them die, but if left with no choice, I am afraid they would have to face that destiny. We must not let the selfish love of people cause more trouble to innoccent lives. We do not identify our siblings for nothing, and incest should not have a place in society.
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