Indeed, those pesky Scandinavian countries, so well-known for treating their citizens horrifically and ensuring they are all oppressed, have a terrible standard of living, and of course - according to a PP - have clearly fallen down an imaginary but allegedly inevitable “slippery slope” and are therefore living under an authoritarian regime where disabled people are murdered and forced abortions take place and anybody carrying a gene for genetic disease is denied medical testing and IVF so that they can have healthy babies and instead forcibly sterilised.
The alternative and sane view being that these countries act in the best interests of their citizens and are therefore happier, healthier and wealthier. They are also some of the most fiercely genuinely democratic countries on Earth where the rights of minorities are most protected and nefarious influences via bribery from vested interests to influence public policy are stamped out and involve severe consequences. The people I know from these countries have found what has happened in UK politics and the type of people that the UK public deem fit for public office in recent decades baffling, amusing and horrifying in equal measure, and increasingly so.
Strangely, the countries which implement evidence-based policies have a very high standard of living and consistently have the highest rates of health and happiness anywhere on Earth. Well done to them for actually caring about their people and doing the right thing, unlike the cowardly, populist, self-interested, incompetent and sub-standard so-called potential “leaders” that we are allowed to choose between.
It speaks volumes that countries like the UAE and even Saudi Arabia are recognising that allowing the marriage of close relatives is disastrous public policy. I didn’t know about Uzbekistan, thank you for posting this. It’s great that even impoverished countries like Uzbekistan are enacting policies to attempt to stamp out this inbreeding due to the public health and economic implications - a country where only 60% of the population attend formal education and many of those drop out before having completed secondary school primarily due to poverty - but this also makes the contrast to the UK even more shocking in that we have people who have had the privilege of living and being educated in Britain still ignoring and dismissing science and attempting to campaign to prevent us implementing similar evidence-based legislation in the UK; this shows just how disgraceful it is that our politicians are pandering to people with such unacceptable and unscientific views who are inflicting this entirely preventable harm on children and wider society.