From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: jimgysin@geemail.com   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
      
   Wickeddoll sent the following on 12/8/2009 12:35 AM:   
   > 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!   
      
   :)   
      
   --    
   Jim Gysin   
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