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What exactly is wrong with incest? I am basing it off this definition:



However, I am also tacking onto it. What is also wrong with romantic relationships between closely related people such as brother and sister?

Keep it at incest. Inbreeding is a whole different story, and genetics is all probability. Plus, it sucks to work out the probabilities.

Now, keep in mind, if a closely related couple does engage in incest, there are a few options to keep from inbreeding:

1) Couple may be homosexual
2) Couple may be infertile
3) Couple may use contraceptives
3a) In a worst case where #3 fails, couple may institute abortion*.

*=This is not a debate about abortion. This is only a possible option.

My Opinion:

I believe it is perfectly fine. What goes on behind closed doors between two consenting people. Except for inbreeding, I find that there is really no reason to ban such relationships from happening.

(Don't know how true this is) But I heard once that siblings having messed up children isn't any more possible than those that aren't related at all, the problem comes with cousins having the messed up brat.... Don't know why that is or, I repeat, even if that's true.

While everyone is free to their own opinions, I think the major problem I have with incest, is that dating, and loving, is about meeting new people. I mean, I think the social taboo came up because of the genetic defect issue, but I think that two people raised very differently have more to share than two people with very similar backgrounds.

The problem is genetics gets nasty when you work out probabilities.

You have maybe a little over 27,000 genes in the human body total. And then the genotype the genotype for the genes can be (universally expressed) AA, Aa, and aa.

Some genes would be fine, some genes would be homozygous recessive already by pure chance anyway, and some genes would just turn heterozygous. And then you'd have to find how many sex-linked traits there are. Possible sex-linked genotypes are XX, Xx, xx, XY, and xY.

In short, this is why I tried to choose not to discuss inbreeding. Unless someone is willing to do some serious number crunching (and research) to find out the probability of a reasonably normal child for first-generation inbred offspring, it's etchy to discuss unless we are talking about historical observations.

......Not into incest.....but I am close to my brothers. I got shot for my older twin brother, Jesse. (I got shot in my right shoulder so he wouldn't get shot in the heart). My little brother, Ryan, got cancer and I cut off all my hair for him. He used to have long hair and my hair used to be to my waist. So I cut extra off so he could have the same length that he did before he lost it. Now my hair is as short as my avi's....I kind of like it better that way. Also.....well lets just say that my brothers always got in trouble and I took all the punishments.... I have so many damn scars from those punishments it isn't funny....-_-;

Yes. Just look at the probabilities as this:

Inaccurate.

However, the point about dogs and the Royal family:

I believe they were spread over... Many generations.

Love is love period.

Doesn't matter to me if they are cousins,brother,sister,homosexual,bisexual,straight...or whatever else.I've never had those kind of feelings towards my siblings/relatives though[and i don't think I ever will] but some people can't help what they feel.Some can keep it private & locked down deep in their hearts forever,or they just want to express how they truely feel for that other being.

I don't think there's nothing wrong with,it's just the consequences of having a child that they should be concerned about at some time [or they can adopt]

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