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2024-02-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Incest Is Best? The Economist Says Copulating-Cousins Cool ‘In Most Cases’

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-18 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [44 views ] Top

#1 Inbreeding is cool - Muslims do it all the time.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-18 01:02|| 2024-02-18 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, the people who write and read The Economist are inbred already, so...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-18 07:44|| 2024-02-18 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Seem to also ignore hundreds of years of European royalty and aristocracy inbreeding.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-18 08:04|| 2024-02-18 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd walk on the other side of the state to avoid my sister and her cousins.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-18 08:26|| 2024-02-18 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 There are some advantages to cousin marriages. In a clan-based society, it keeps the wealth inside the clan and avoids inheriting political entanglements.

From a genetic standpoint, it increases your offspring's chances of getting two copies of a good gene. Animal breeders do this all the time.

It also increases the chances of getting two copies of a bad gene. This is ungood. In animal husbandry, you can eat the results of your failed experiments. With humans, the results continue to make copies of themselves. This is double plus ungood.

Posted by SteveS 2024-02-18 10:22|| 2024-02-18 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 In animal husbandry, you can eat the results of your failed experiments.

Legalize cannibalism and that solves that issue.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-18 10:44|| 2024-02-18 10:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I guess I may have castigated the Bidens unnecessarily.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-18 10:47|| 2024-02-18 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, they seem to have doubled up on the grift gene.

Is it a good gene or a bad gene?

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-18 10:49|| 2024-02-18 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Uh oh; Hunter story about to drop.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-18 17:55|| 2024-02-18 17:55|| Front Page Top

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