Keep it in the family!

[Kire]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/05/cou....ap/index.html

Well, didn't see this coming. I guess I'm for cousins marrying being legal, but they should be allowed to have kids, cuz that would really screw up the kids' genes...but how do you regulate that to a married couple? Thoughts?

[Crimson Knight]

Re: Keep it in the family!

I say let them mess up their bloodline. I heard somewhere that in-breeding doesn't have that significant of an effect on child births.

[Vonwert]

Re: Keep it in the family!

You clearly have never been to North Carolina


But I would say I am against them having children, but marriage...hmm...I don't know.

[John Mora]

Re: Keep it in the family!

Apparently, first generation offspring from an incestuous relationship do okay.

I have no evidence to back this up. I just had a teacher tell me this.

[Riotsword]

Re: Keep it in the family!

Yeehaw... Gay marriage banned, but incest is okay!

Morons.

Reminds me of David Cross's bit on Rick Santorum... I guess during the whole legislature to ban gay marriage wherever he(Santorum) is, they were trying to lift the ban on bestiality.

Again, morons...

[DK]

Re: Keep it in the family!

They should just adopt

[Magus]

Re: Keep it in the family!

YOU SURE GOT A PRETTY MOUTH, BOY

[Magik]

Re: Keep it in the family!

yeah, that's what I've been told too, Mora. We read an article about it in biology last year.. not to say the article wasn't dogmatic, but it seemed well-researched.

If that's the case, then the only thing keeping this form of "incest" wrong is the taboo that has surrounded it for the past few centuries. Taboos usually have a basis in some cause-and-effect pattern leading to a destructive consequence.. (ie it was, and still is for most, believed that the offspring of relatives have a high chance of genetic disorders or birth defects.) As technology and research shake the foundation of a taboo, it'll start to collapse. Of course, it takes a long time for society to adapt and accept things that are at one point labeled taboo. In a way this can be bad, because forbidden fruit is important to develop ethic and moral in a civilization; at the same time, they're often used to justify discrimination or to suppress natural processes of the human mind..

anyway, all that ramble is just opinion.

I would be weirded out by having any of my first cousins get married to one another, but at the same time I can't think of any reason that it should be so weird..except that, it just is.

[The Toecutter]

Re: Keep it in the family!

Interesting. Anyone have any scientific data pertaining to birth defects and incest?

Should those defects not be so prominent, there is absolutely no reason cousins shouldn't be able to marry each other, and have kids even.

[John Mora]

Re: Keep it in the family!

I think the thing that makes it weird is the theoretical "Westermarck" effect. We tend not to view the people that grow up in proximity to us in a sexual manner.

[Magus]

Re: Keep it in the family!

ONIISAN~

[John Mora]

Re: Keep it in the family!

Those crazy kids might have a chance after all.