Posted on 02/28/2002 7:36:19 AM PST by Dallas
MOORE HAVEN, Fla. (Reuters) - Acting on a tip that a Florida family was keeping a child's casket in their living room, police discovered a 53-year-old man living on an isolated farm with his sister as a couple and their 13 children and grandchildren, authorities said on Wednesday.
No charges were filed against the pair for digging up the remains because the statute of limitations had run out but police filed a single charge of incest against the man. He was being held Wednesday at the Glades County Jail on $150,000 bond.
Holley said the sister had not yet been charged in the ongoing investigation into one of the most bizarre incidents in memory in rural Glades County, a citrus-growing area bordering Florida's Lake Okeechobee.
"Some of our norms are defined by law. Some people don't agree with the norms and they live outside the law," Holley said. "Our main concern was for the welfare of the children."
Investigators believe the 13 children were delivered and schooled at home. They described the house as orderly and the children as disciplined.
"You have to wonder. Didn't they know this wouldn't work out?" Holley said.
Here is the Achilles' heel of your unyielding positions Owk.
Should we repeal bank robbery laws because banks continue to be robbed?
There is also in my opinion, something inherently "icky" about homosexuality, heterosexual S&M, heterosexual promiscuity, and many other things.
As such, I choose not to engage in such activities.
I do not however, consider it reasonable to initiate force against those who do.
The issue here in my opinion, is the question of offspring.
Bank robbery violates rights.
That's irrelevant to the question.
I am not questioning the justification for a law, just the notion that if it is not 100% effective it should be repealed.
I did not intend to imply that laws should exist or not, based on their effectiveness as a deterent (although I can understand from reviewing my words how you might have come to that conclusion).
I should have been clearer.
Libertarian philosophy is based upon moral absolutes.
It is in NO WAY a morally relativistic philosophy.
In practice it means that we are required to allow the worst behavior to occupy any and all public spaces, and that we have no right to expect or require good behavior.
I guess one could compare the difference to that between "Potterville" and "Bedford Falls" in It's a Wonderful Life.
In bolder terms, it's called turning over the asylum to the inmates, and barricading the doors in hopes that they won't break in.
However, in mythology, siblings do marry and have children. In Greek mythology, Zeus and Hera are brother and sister. Their offspring are the other gods and goddesses.
It makes you wonder what was going on psychologically with these people. I speculate that it was some kind of inflated, overvaluation of self--an indentification with divinity.
These people belong in a looney bin. The sad part is the effect this may have on the children.
Huh? How the hell did you get THAT from what I said?
What's the matter with genetically deformed offspring?
Uh... they're genetically deformed?
Is this a trick question?
Hopefully you recognize genetic deformity as something a parent would choose to spare a child he was bringing into the world, if he had the choice.
How about only making it illegal unless you are members of Pharonic or French royal families.
That's where they get those bulging eyes, outrageous forheads and no chins from.
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