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Panamared · 70-79, M
Go for it if you want

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

 
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