Incest and children.

[Pyrrho]

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Rather than asking people's opinions on the subject, it would be better to do some research.  Here is a place you can start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding

To give a specific example, in the case of first cousins breeding, it doubles the chances of genetic disorders compared with unrelated people breeding.

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Well, I was hoping to do a combination of both. So that I can hear the sides of people here as well as research. That's something that's been helpful with me for a while now. The whole point was to research and discuss what I've learned with others to better understand the subject. One of the sources I found on the subject was: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ani...lem-incest

Clearly, the claim of the title of that other thread, "Homosexuality is wrong, the same way incest is wrong," misses out on an important difference in that homosexuality cannot lead to an increased risk of genetic disorders in offspring (as it produces no offspring), whereas incest can lead to an increased risk of genetic disorders in offspring.

We all know that many people try to divorce sex from reproduction, but there is no perfect birth control and the two are not completely separate in practice, however different they may be conceptually (the pun is intended).

The question might be, how much genetic risk is acceptable?  Or should the government stop people from breeding if they have a high risk of passing on genetic disorders?

For my part, the question of "allowing" homosexual activity is an easy matter, whereas incest can and does in practice involve offspring who are affected by such activity, which makes it far more questionable.


By the way, your link is to an interesting article.  This, for example, is quite interesting:

This raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? Sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? Some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. This explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches(link is external) to chimpanzees (). Second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ani...lem-incest