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Aswad -> RE: On Free Speech (9/23/2012 7:08:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
Rich, you forgot one small thing. In countries of the crown, they believe that divine rights only flow to the royalty; you know the fucked-up, in-bred genetic messes that have been marrying and reproducing with their own cousins for centuries. That gene pool is getting awfully shallow, if you ask a geneticist.
If you ask a geneticist, you may learn that inbreeding is too complex to support the use of "inbred" as a derogatory term. Inbreeding, in fact, among other things serves to concentrate traits and raise the prevalence of recessive traits. If a pool contains several good traits, inbreeding will all but universalize them. If a pool contains negative ones, those will also tend to universalize. When using genetic methods to refine digital or electronic processes, inbreeding is an invaluable tool to accomplish the desired level of quality, cutting a number of iterations from the process.
Some products of inbreeding include Einstein and Darwin.
If a culture accepts infanticide or other ways to increase selection pressure, it will benefit greatly from inbreeding. Sparta would be an excellent example, as their combination of a high incidence of inbreeding (e.g. Leonidas and Gorgo were first cousins) and a stringent "quality assurance" process (that involved both infanticide and rearing practices that had a high mortality rate) resulted in what may have been the finest warriors known to mankind at the time. Other accomplishments include high education levels, property rights for women, a strong community, and so forth.
Incidentally, the UK doesn't have the only royal family in Europe.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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