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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Christ, I NEVER thought I'd have to be defending the concept that brothers should not have children with their sisters. I had a VERY hard time finding anything where it was a analysis of brother-sister unions, and do you want to know why? Because since before written history began we knew this caused a LOT of problems.
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Thank you for those informative studies. I wasn't aware of the empirical evidence supporting your contention. I will say, however, that historic societies didn't hinge their taboos regarding incest on genetic anomolies. That should be obvious, since the understanding of genetics is fairly recent in the positivist timeline. I do agree, however, that incest taboos have been very critical to the social ordering within and between families. I could go into this more in depth but in the end of day I agree with what you're saying: there are scientific along with sociological reasons to restrict sexual relationships between family members' siblings and/or their parents. Whether they are outweighed by our notions of individual rights is an altogether different question, I think...