It’s more useful to list what percent of genes you should share
That and the likelihood of common negative recessive genes are really the most important thing about cousin fucking.
I’m not a geneticist, but you really have to think about the birthday paradox here. You have how many genes, and how many are recessive? The odds of a collision are probably way more than you’d think.
Anyways, please don’t reproduce with your cousins, until they’re so distant you no longer have a vocabulary to describe it.
Iirc, two random cousins fucking has a small but non-negligible chance of creating a genetic issue - something like 1% chance. And at second cousins, your odds have essentially dropped to background levels. The problem arises when everyone in your family only fucks their cousins.
Well, if you're rich, you like easy stuff. And your cousins are right there! You have them within easy reach at family gatherings! You can keep your precious money within the family! You can groom them from a very early age if they're younger than you!
For a person with wealth-induced empathic deficit, it's got no downside!
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Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 36d
Keep the money in the family, keep the family in the money
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
And nobody would marry someone knowing he/she is also marrying a whole family of inbred assholes.
houndeyes@toast.ooo · 18 pts · 36d
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 36d
It’s more useful to list what percent of genes you should share
That and the likelihood of common negative recessive genes are really the most important thing about cousin fucking.
I’m not a geneticist, but you really have to think about the birthday paradox here. You have how many genes, and how many are recessive? The odds of a collision are probably way more than you’d think.
Anyways, please don’t reproduce with your cousins, until they’re so distant you no longer have a vocabulary to describe it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
Not every recessive gene is a death sentence.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Iirc, two random cousins fucking has a small but non-negligible chance of creating a genetic issue - something like 1% chance. And at second cousins, your odds have essentially dropped to background levels. The problem arises when everyone in your family only fucks their cousins.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 36d
Incest is Wincest
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 36d
Only if you don't marry your sibling, half sibling, parents, or grandparents. If you keep it farther out on the family tree, it is all legal.
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 36d
It's a Shelbyville tradition!
sundray@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 36d
Because they're so attractive!
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 36d
Well, if you're rich, you like easy stuff. And your cousins are right there! You have them within easy reach at family gatherings! You can keep your precious money within the family! You can groom them from a very early age if they're younger than you!
For a person with wealth-induced empathic deficit, it's got no downside!
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 5 pts · 36d
Hey, if it worked for the House of Habsburg, it can work for your oil dynasty as well.