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New vedan wrote:You know the whole "hur dur those people marry there cousins" stereotype.

Yeah, it'd be expected not funny.

Dernel wrote:The issue here is that the example given is purely anecdotal, it doesn't represent the whole situation. Evidence is shown that an average child born of an under 35 mother has about a 3% chance of having any birth defect. When between cousins this doubles. If over 35, this goes from 3% to 4% meaning, that between cousins it is an 8% chance of a birth defect compared to a normal couple.

Now, I understand your argument, of love is love, and as long as it doesn't effect anyone else it doesn't matter. Only issue is, it does affect someone else. It affects the child. Even if it doesn't pass on to the grand children, it still messes with that child's entire life. When you double the chances of someone's life being generally messed up, or even completely destroyed, it's not something one should be ok with, much less encourage.

But that'll be fixable soon enough, so who cares? Also, does that statistic apply to new mutations or recessive genes?

Axixic wrote:3. BTW: Denisovans and Neanderthals are human. Your sentence is the equivalent of saying the Welsh interbred with the Irish and the Scots. True but irrelevant.

To my knowledge the Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens are/were all subspecies of human. I wouldn't compare that to modern ethnicities or whatever, because that isn't a good can of worms to open and reeks of white mans burden and imperialism.

Venacia wrote:One thing though, not wrong about Homo denisova technically, Denisovans were a subrace of human and therefore completely human.

Subspecies, so they'd be Homo sapiens denisova probably.

Arclandia wrote:They weren't doing it so cousins could marry. They were doing it for racial purification. It's a huge difference, especially in implementation. Don't compare us to nazis again. We were polite in saying it the first two times.

They were doing it to keep out genetic defects. Their version of a defect included being black, but still to remove defects. They were slightly insane—shocking I know—so they might've considered encouraging inbreeding at some point, although considering the "freedom" they gave their scientists, that would have been short lived.
Now I may believe in heavy welfare, high taxes, and in cameras recording everything—I wouldn't call it surveillance, because it's complicated—but I am still a liberal damn it, so let people do whatever they want; we can fix it later.

New vedan and Moaning Lisa

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