Should Incest between consenting adults be legal?

[ulsterscotsman]

Nope!

 

[GS 281]

I don't like calling these sects ultra-Orthodox, because it implies there is some spectrum ordinary Orthodox Jews are on, and that these groups are taking it further. Really, the worst of these groups are just personality cults usually centered around some crazy person. They're also a real problem in Israel, as they refuse to obey the law or pay taxes. Plus, despite being a small part of the population, elections are often close enough that coalition governments have to be formed including them, so they have vastly disproportionate influence in politics.

The Ashkenazi Jewish population already has serious problems with recessive genes and specific genetic illnesses, like Tay-Sachs disease, Canavan syndrome, cystic fibrosis, etc. In Israel, it is actually pretty common to do genetic screening before marriage specifically to avoid pairings that would increase the likelihood of these recessives pairing up.

These crazy cults do the exact opposite.

Aren't Ashkenazis the ones who are really good at math and reading tests?

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Aren't Ashkenazis the ones who are really good at math and reading tests?

Moral of the story: Incest will make you get lots of diseases but will also give you super intelligence which will make up for the diseases

Spoiler: real moral

having a culture that values intellectual pursuits causes you to epigenetically become smarter

 

[Holdek]

Spoiler: real moral

having a culture that values intellectual pursuits causes you to epigenetically become smarter

Also having to adapt to survive through millennia of pogroms and genocide selects for intelligent traits.

 

[kuniqs]

1) Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQ scores that rest of the population, which is believed to come from the tradition of not breeding outside the Ashkenazi circle. Kinda interesting, don't you think?
2) Westermark effect prevents inbreeding. At the same time, genetic sexual attraction encourages inbreeding. Kinda ironic.
3) Incest destroys trust between family members, so unless we'll create a randian society where children grow up totally alone, incest will never be approved by society.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

The difference between 300 and now is that we would not outnumber the Chinese.

And we still have far bigger guns.