From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >    
   > Anim8rFSK   
   >>> 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.  :)   
   >    
      
   HEY! Some....one of my best friends is from WV!  She's a teacher, a    
   damned good one, struggling to bring up the IQs of the children of that    
   state!   
      
   Natalie   
   --    
   "Wicked little doll, you have no soul"   
   (David Byrne, 1997)   
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