From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >  Jim Gysin    
   >>>> 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.   
   >    
      
   I'm tellin' my friend on you!  If I were you, I'd be very afraid - she    
   scares *me*...   
      
   Natalie   
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