“There are some things that should be beyond our individual desires because there prevention is absolutely manifest if we wish to keep the structure of society harmonious and the individual, in general, safe. There are certain rules that cannot be broken for a whole range of medical, social and psychological reasons. There are some things that straight away tip that innate personal meter of the general community from tolerable to disgust, which is our community’s protection mechanism from anarchy and individual personal destruction.

“A man cannot marry his daughter nor have a child to his daughter as you create excuses for a whole range of issues associated with incest. If you want to live in a world with no rules, you will live in a place where we are all miserable and people get harmed as there are no rules to protect them.

“It is quite obvious when you see things from the perspective that ‘I work in total isolation and everything pertaining to me is nobody else’s business’ then this ignores the fact that everything we do in a community affects someone else. It is the most peculiar thing about this revelation that was on 60 minutes that any serious commentator is giving it anything but a knock out punch.

“This problem is not unique, it has been talked about from Greek tragedies to the annals of court cases today, but the outcome is always the same. A very dangerous physiological matrix of risks for the child, an incredible sociological burden for those associated and a trapdoor of risks that open up to the possible predatory sexualisation of the child by the parent. Consent, in the reality of the world, is only one aspect of the range of issues that a harmonious society considers essential in the union between a man and a woman.

“I hope this issue is swiftly brought to a conclusion that dispels the overwhelming sense of unease that I have felt from everybody who I have discussed this issue with this morning.

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