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Sending them to the slammer is absolutely not right... why should they be punished for a choice they make, which only effects them, and doesn't harm anyone else? For pi's sake, they already have children... what do the authorities tell them? "Your parents are in jail because they're 'icky'... you'll understand once you know our societies unspoken values."?
They probably shouldn't have had children due to the genetic defects and heredity, but the fact of the matter is that punishment isn't the answer to a case like this. You don't punish children because their parents had them, and you don't punish people for having children... society may punish people for what they do to other people, not what they do.
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And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be
banana-shaped.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again
how sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Oh, certainly, sir.
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