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!   
   >    
   > I've been told that WV women make wonderful wives and mothers.  But then    
   > again, I heard this from their brothers...   
   >    
      
   For you own sake, I'm not about to forward *that* one to her!   
      
   Natalie   
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