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.   
   >> For the record, I moved here for the beer and cheese.   
   >    
   > That's what she named their pointed headed children!   
      
   *wiping caramel latte off the monitor*   
      
   Do realize how many Rosary beads I have to go through, after reading    
   your posts?   
      
   Natalie   
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