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[Tobie]

[kılıç_mehmet]

And your point is? Will you illegalize marriage between cousins after legalizing gay marriage?
Or will you give up your efforts if they illegalize it?

[Napoléon]

And your point is? Will you illegalize marriage between cousins after legalizing gay marriage?

The point is the hypocrisy of allowing first cousins to marry and not homosexuals. But obviously you are oblivious to that.

[kılıç_mehmet]

And your point is? Will you illegalize marriage between cousins after legalizing gay marriage?

The point is the hypocrisy of allowing first cousins to marry and not homosexuals. But obviously you are oblivious to that.

And I guess that the marriage of two cousins and two men or women are on the same damn level.
Whenever I quote incest as a next step, you people have told me that.
Besides, you should be glad. After gay marriage is legalized, two gay cousins are also able to marry eachother. More freedom!

[Shell B]

Point is: Move to New England. We're assholes, but we're not that kind of asshole.

[Reforged]

Holy fuck, seriously?
I legitimately did not know that.

[Anomalocaris]

What you might also not know is the cultural taboo against first cousin marriages is probably a very recent thing. 80% of all marriages throughout the history of Homo Sapeins have been between second cousins or closer:

Kinship-Marriage-Anthropological-Perspective-Anthropology

Also, the overall risk of birth defect in first cousin marriages is comparable to the risk of birth defects from women married to non-relatives, but giving birth at age 40. So if a woman is giving birth past age 40, she is doing a worse thing for her offsprings than marrying her first cousin.

So if marriage between first cousin is to be outlawed based on risks to the offspring, then women should go to jail for attempting to conceive after 40.

Finally, Charles Darwin of the Origins of Species married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood. Some of their offsprings turned out rather well even by the standards of their father.

[kılıç_mehmet]

What you might also not know is the cultural taboo against first cousin marriages is probably a very recent thing. 80% of all marriages throughout the history of Homo Sapeins have been between second cousins or closer:

Indeed. There are people I know that have done so.
It was done to preserve family wealth, mostly.

[Reforged]

What you might also not know is the cultural taboo against first cousin Finally, Charles Darwin of the Origins of Species married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood. Some of their offsprings turned out rather well even by the standards of their father.

That does it, I'm sold. If its good enough for Darwin it good enough for me. I'm off to fuck my cousin and live the American dream.
Considering my cousin isn't bad looking I'll leave you to decide wether I'm joking or not.

[Napoléon]

And I guess that the marriage of two cousins and two men or women are on the same damn level.

So the two things do not receive a similar, or even comparable amount of stigma?

I don't think the comparison is a biological one do you? Rather a social one.

Whenever I quote incest as a next step, you people have told me that.

I'm not you people. So please refrain from calling me that.

Besides, you should be glad. After gay marriage is legalized, two gay cousins are also able to marry eachother. More freedom!

Quite.