From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   In article ,   
    Jim Gysin  wrote:   
      
   > Anim8rFSK sent the following on 12/7/2009 1:48 PM:   
   > > In article ,   
   > >  Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   > >    
   > >> Anim8rFSK sent the following on 12/6/2009 1:45 PM:   
   > >>> In article ,   
   > >>>  Wickeddoll  wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> 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.   
   >    
   > For the record, I moved here for the beer and cheese.   
      
   That's what she named their pointed 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.   
   >    
   > Heh.  Not a lot of branches on the ol' family tree...   
      
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