From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   In article ,   
    Jim Gysin  wrote:   
      
   > Anim8rFSK sent the following on 12/6/2009 1:45 PM:   
   > > In article ,   
   > >  Wickeddoll  wrote:   
   > >    
   > >> Quadibloc wrote:   
   > >> Wickeddoll wrote:   
   > >>>> I don't know what you've read, but   
   > >>>> inbreeding really does cause chromosomal anomalies.   
   > >>> Technically speaking, that isn't actually the reason why inbreeding is   
   > >>> bad.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Basically, every one of us has genes for dozens of lethal genetic   
   > >>> disorders. But they're all recessive, which is why we aren't dead.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> And the same applies for most of us to serious but not lethal genetic   
   > >>> disorders.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> The human genome is pretty big, though, so when two unrelated people   
   > >>> marry, almost all of the time, while both partners have perhaps   
   > >>> hundreds of recessives for serious genetic defects, not one of them is   
   > >>> the same as one the partner also has.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Radiation causes abnormal chromosomes. Incest lets matching pairs of   
   > >>> abnormal chromosomes to get together, causing death and illness from   
   > >>> genes that were already there.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> John Savard   
   > >> Right, that's what I was taught, but I don't see how what you're saying    
   > >> is different from my point.  There are genetic reasons one shouldn't    
   > >> inbreed.   
   > >>   
   > >> You seemed to be implying that there was no good reason to ban inbreeding.   
   > >    
   > > Actually there was a movement claiming just that a few years ago.  I was    
   > > never sure if they actually had a point or were just from Wisconsin.   
   >    
   > I'm pretty sure that you either misspelled "Kentucky" or "West Virginia"    
   > there.  :)   
      
   LOL, no, a friend of mine upped and moved to Wisconsin so she could    
   marry her first cousin, bless their pointy headed children.   
      
   From what I've seen of people from West Virginia, I suspect it's against    
   the law to breed with someone that's NOT a close relative.   
      
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