Incest and children.

[IanHulett]

So, this thread is based off of:

Responding to "Homosexuality is wrong, the same way incest is wrong" - http://atheistforums.org/thread-33548.html

The reason I'm starting a new topic is because I don't want to derail the original thread since it's about Homosexuality and Incest, not incest and children. As noted here:

Well, yeah, I agree, but I feel with all the problems that result from children from sibling parents, or whatever, it's safer to adopt. That's all I was really saying.

It's not as dangerous as most people think it is.

there's obviously a disagreement as to how dangerous incestuous sex is to the offspring... so I felt this is a great topic to discuss.
I'm going to take a neutral position since I don't know both sides... just what I was told... and that is that incest is dangerous to blood related offspring.

So, to start... What's everybody's thoughts on this?

[Silver]

I already made a comment in reference to this in another thread.

I can understand the increased rate of birth defects, but to be honest that is proportionate to continual generations of incest.

[IanHulett]

You can get the full context of the issue with the link.

[rexbeccarox]

Do we really need three threads about incest going on at once?

[Silver]

Nope.

[IanHulett]

There's another thread? Can I get a link to it?

[abaris]

The honest answer is, I don't know. I'm not up to scratch how many birth defects actually happen.

[IanHulett]

Do we really need three threads about incest going on at once?

I found another one located here: http://atheistforums.org/thread-35803.ht...ght=incest

but it's not addressing the issue I'm addressing. Unless there's another?

I did a search and this is all I found:

http://atheistforums.org/search.php?acti...order=desc

So, I dunno.

[Pyrrho]

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.

[IanHulett]

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.

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