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?   
   >    
   > obTerminator2:  "All of them, I think"   
   >    
      
   Twice.   
      
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