The question of cousin marriage.

What are your thoughts?

Those who follow me know my views on migration in the modern world. A state must be united in one religion. Foreign peoples should convert. In Europe and America, the Christian faith no longer cares for cousin marriage.

Yet what is the problem with cousin marriage? In what way does it bother you? Would you forbid it?

I would not.

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SW-User

The reason it bothers me is that my parents were related. According to GED match, at around the second cousin level. I have multiple DNA mutation duplications, and I can't help but wonder if my parents being related didn't contribute to this. It wouldn't matter whether I forbade it or not. People will do what they want.🤷‍♀

exexec · 70-79, C

I discovered that my wife and I are fifth cousins. No problem.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

I wouldn't recommend it.

The risk of a genetic defect in the children of a first-cousin marriage roughly doubles to 6% from about 3% in the children of unrelated parents.

https://www.iflscience.com/cousin-marriage-could-be-genetically-disastrous-for-offspring-here-s-why-67948

ElwoodBlues · M

The laws on cousin marriage are a public health decision to prevent medical problems due to inbreeding. They make sense and should stay.

JSul3 · 70-79

"A state must be united in one religion. Foreign peoples should convert."

Fully disagree.

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JSul3 · 70-79

@yestestvennaya Freedom to worship or not worship....personal freedom.
I know it's different there in Russia:
Do as Putin says, or else.

yestestvennaya · 22-25, F

@JSul3 One nation ought to be one nation. A single entity. Each nation to his own kind.

SpudMuffin · 61-69, M

@yestestvennaya so one religion. One culture, one language, one race?

in10RjFox · MVIP

If I had a cousin, I would not have let her marry someone else ..

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

The UK wants more Brits. They're barking up the wrong tree.
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2061.
Human rights include freedom of religion, government responsibilities include not establishing state religions.

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

That would be a Theocracy, a religious dictatorship. the U.S. choose Freedom of Religion and separation of church and state.

The First Article of the U.S. Bill of Rights:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".

yestestvennaya · 22-25, F

@badminton You are stuck with a crazy melting pot of ideology and religion. An amalgam of madness. How is it working for you?

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@yestestvennaya It has been working very well since the founding of the United States. Ever since, people have come to the U.S. to escape religious persecution. Our founders created a constitution which guarantees religious liberty. They swore we will never have the religious intolerance that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

JSul3 · 70-79

@yestestvennaya It's working well enough that folks like Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev came here and became a naturalized citizen.

How's that invasion of Ukraine going?

Panamared · 70-79, M

Go for it if you want

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