Shy talk Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Well that would be the end of the Royal Family as we know it The royal family dont do that anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natjack Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 marrying your first cousin, its perverted. surley incest?It might not be wise healthwise, but it can't be incest, can it? Or it wouldn't be legal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 The royal family dont do that anymore. :hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s.hawkins Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 sorry but its totally disgusting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s.hawkins Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 marrying your first cousin, its perverted. surley incest? Well it's not a problem amongst a diverse gene pool, and it's never been illegal in the UK. Ironically the Amish community in America, are often used in gene studies, because their narrow range of diversity gives them higher tolerances to certain illnesses that affect the wider community more, whilst there are other illnesses that they have a higher propensity to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 My god, the imam in the C4 programme would be an excellent candidate for the ignorance is bliss brigade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mafya Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 marrying your first cousin, its perverted. surley incest? What you mean like sperm donor kids or kids given up for adoption who grow up not knowing about their bloodline and then sometimes in later life marrying someone related to them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laineyiow Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 My god, the imam in the C4 programme would be an excellent candidate for the ignorance is bliss brigade. I quite agree. Thought the interviewer handled him really well. He came across as just didn't want to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babooshka Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 It's not like marrying your sister, is it? You might not even know your cousins. I got the gist that it's not so much just marrying your cousin causing the disablities, it's more that cousins have been marrying cousins for generations and that people from a small gene pool keep marrying in, instead of marrying out? Things like that happen anyway, even if people aren't related. You can't make laws for everyone just because a few people have bad experiences. Whether you know your cousins or not, you are still blood-related. The fact that you may have never met them until such and such a time is irrelevant. Things like that (illnesses) do happen, but it is the increased frequency of these things happening that concern people. It is not just a few people who are affected. It is LOTS of babies who are affected. And, whether it is you who has had a baby with your cousin, or your ancestral cousins, the fact of the matter is, that if you allow this to continue, then you are going to be increasingly faced with this issue of a great increase of babies with disabilities, as you are passing things forward in to your descendants' futures. Plus, aren't most laws made from studying the errors of the minority? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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