News : sperm donor fathered 500 children

Question

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/father-hundreds-gets-sperm-donation-ban-dutch-court-2023-04-28/

He's been ordered to stop, we'll see if it's effective.

It'll probably be about 100 years from now until the children can be posthumously added to the tree without concerns for privacy. 

The donor will likely be a cc7 king and could replace Kevin Bacon in the cc7 overview. He'll be a central node. 

Personally I don't think his actions are good. Just a few of these weirdos are enough to permanently bring the human genome off course.

Comments

A man named Simon Watson has claimed to have over 800 children through his donations.

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Genghis Khan 2000-3000 kids. I guess he did what he could to replace all that he killed. It's "good" to be King.

Answer 1

Oh NO!  The man's name is Jonathan Meijer!

Now, I can never go in this store again without wondering if all the people shopping there are his offspring! 

What a way to remember somebody's name!

Answer 2

There was a movie with Vince Vaughan, Delivery Man, made about 10 years ago, with just that plot. I wonder what they do to prevent incest.

Comments

Well, the rate we’re going in breaking down long-standing social taboos, incest won’t be illegal much longer. In fact, it’s not in certain jurisdictions, while in others incest is made to include first cousin marriages which are allowed in others. DNA tests might help guard against dangerous inbreeding, but only if people bother to have them beforehand.

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As a society, we've been circling the drain for a while now. As far as incest goes, it is far more prevalent than most realize and often unreported for a multitude of reasons. When prosecuted, usually light sentences are given w/ treatment.