From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds
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Wickeddoll wrote:
> 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?
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