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Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:05:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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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.
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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...
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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
particular royalty situations).
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I don’t follow you. Are you saying that carefully avoiding inbreeding is
useless given a limited genetic pool?
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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.
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For a given genetic trait. Others traits can/will suffer. Notice German
shepherds-- size good, but temperment and hip issues bad.
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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.
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A huge problem of incest to a given society is role conflict which screws up
the process of passing culture down to the next generation. Perhaps the
rejection of incest isn’t genetic, but it runs so deep and is so old that it may
as well be.
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Don’t botanist inbreed desirable traits to achieve a specific result?
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Yeah, we get beautiful roses, but with fragrance bred out as a consequence.
The best chance for a species to adapt and survive is to have the largest gene
pool possible.
JOHN
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