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« Reply #25 on: October 11, 2014, 02:11:21 PM »

i don't support eugenics, so...
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« Reply #26 on: October 11, 2014, 05:51:14 PM »


I did. While the second one is more consistent, there is of course this, which is not really arguable:

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It wasn't the best example, but I was hunting a .edu.

I find it most interesting that there is very likely an evolutionary impulse against inbreeding, which would make a lot of sense.

In any event, no one is going to convince me at this point in time that inbreeding is not harmful, so we probably just won't agree on it. Tongue

OK ... so even if you are shown direct scientific evidence you won't change your mind, because you really want not to believe it; to the extent you'll hunt down evidence and shoehorn it to your beliefs? Fair enough, I guess; but pretty much all the evidence suggests that inbreeding is only really dangerous to gene pools if it is widespread and repeated. Even if evolution "doesn't like" organisms inbreeding, nature considers it better than extinction so early humans almost constantly inbred (we are all inbred to some extent, your parents family trees almost certainly cross multiple times).
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« Reply #27 on: October 11, 2014, 10:53:29 PM »

I find it most interesting that there is very likely an evolutionary impulse against inbreeding
must not be a very strong one.
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« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2014, 11:16:01 AM »

I can't say it's something I'd personally approve of, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be legal. The procreation arguments for marriage have consistently failed across many courts. It doesn't even satisfy the simple rational basis test. Procreation is merely incidental to marriage. It is not a basis through which to restrict marriage rights. For those that make the argument against this for procreation reasons, how would you feel about same-sex cousin marriages? Should same-sex cousin marriages be legal and opposite-sex cousin marriages be illegal?
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