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Subject:	Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:52:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:

Okay, but you’d agree that it is taboo in our culture? If so, to what would you attest that value? I’ll have to do a little research, but I think the taboo extends beyond any Judeo-Christian influence.

There’s plenty of examples of inbreeding in the Bible. Does the Bible also specifically forbid incest? It’s not something of great importance to me either way so I can see my forgetting these details...

I don’t follow you. Are you saying that carefully avoiding inbreeding is useless given a limited genetic pool?

It is my understanding that pointed inbreeding, just like it’s absolute avoidance, creates a genetically superior product. Obviously, it’s hard to get hard data when it comes to humans on this point.

I’m just vaguely recalling something from physical anthropology days here...I remember it because it flew in the face of what I understood to be the rationale behind incest taboos.

Don’t botanist inbreed desirable traits to achieve a specific result?

-- Hop-Frog

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		Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
(...) I like the bit in the Bible where the men have harems--why can't I have my many women! K, I don't have a woman right now, yet enough to constitute a harem... so this point's rather irrelevant. <snip> (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
(...) Yes, incest is prohibited in Leviticus. So are a lot of things BTW, like eating lobster;-) I think the issue predates the Bible. And I did a little research-- it appears that incest is taboo in virtually every culture (except in some (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
(...) Okay, but you'd agree that it is taboo in our culture? If so, to what would you attest that value? I'll have to do a little research, but I think the taboo extends beyond any Judeo-Christian influence. (...) I don't follow you. Are you saying (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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