From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
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    Wickeddoll  wrote:   
      
   > 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!   
      
   Bring them up to what, double digits?   
      
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