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chris
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| conspiracies unlimited wrote: |
| Ferrit Leggings wrote: |
| You didn't care about the brother on sister bit? |
This is a silly question... incest is taboo for very specific reasons... procreation (and the potential for genetic degredation) and inheiritence rights... beyond that, sex is sex... so long as both parties are in agrrement, and both parties are capable of making that sort of decision (IE no kids, no mentally challenged folks)...
Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if this "test" wasn't designed solely for the purpose of asking that question... |
Seems to me, remembering from my Anthro 101, incest is the only universal taboo among human cultures, but it's defined differently. In some cultures, mating with anyone in your clan is incest, even if you can't trace kinship. Some it's the same village. Others, cousins aren't even related to you (culturally). The taboo has almost nothing to do with genetic diversity, except in modern, technological cultures, which most of the world is not. There has been some sort of incest taboo for thousands of years, but we've only known about genetics for a century or so. In the past and continuing into modern times, the incest taboo has been about trade and relationships. (Yes, inheiritance is one of those. )
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conspiracies unlimited

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| chris wrote: |
| conspiracies unlimited wrote: |
| Ferrit Leggings wrote: |
| You didn't care about the brother on sister bit? |
This is a silly question... incest is taboo for very specific reasons... procreation (and the potential for genetic degredation) and inheiritence rights... beyond that, sex is sex... so long as both parties are in agrrement, and both parties are capable of making that sort of decision (IE no kids, no mentally challenged folks)...
Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if this "test" wasn't designed solely for the purpose of asking that question... |
Seems to me, remembering from my Anthro 101, incest is the only universal taboo among human cultures, but it's defined differently. In some cultures, mating with anyone in your clan is incest, even if you can't trace kinship. Some it's the same village. Others, cousins aren't even related to you (culturally). The taboo has almost nothing to do with genetic diversity, except in modern, technological cultures, which most of the world is not. There has been some sort of incest taboo for thousands of years, but we've only known about genetics for a century or so. In the past and continuing into modern times, the incest taboo has been about trade and relationships. (Yes, inheiritance is one of those. ) |
Hmmm. Facts... yeah, I can't work with those...
So, when I'm in Kauai later this year, can I come hunt chickens with you... _________________ You are so whack.Wiggity whack?Nope, just the regular kind.
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