why do rich people like marrying their cousins so much?

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• houndeyes@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  excuse me?

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s more useful to list what percent of genes you should share

  That and the likelihood of common negative recessive genes are really the most important thing about cousin fucking.

  I’m not a geneticist, but you really have to think about the birthday paradox here. You have how many genes, and how many are recessive? The odds of a collision are probably way more than you’d think.

  Anyways, please don’t reproduce with your cousins, until they’re so distant you no longer have a vocabulary to describe it.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not every recessive gene is a death sentence.

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gotta keep the money in the family

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  • Marthirial@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And nobody would marry someone knowing he/she is also marrying a whole family of inbred assholes.

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Incest is Wincest

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  • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Only if you don’t marry your sibling, half sibling, parents, or grandparents. If you keep it farther out on the family tree, it is all legal.

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• teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, if you’re rich, you like easy stuff. And your cousins are right there! You have them within easy reach at family gatherings! You can keep your precious money within the family! You can groom them from a very early age if they’re younger than you!

  For a person with wealth-induced empathic deficit, it’s got no downside!

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s a Shelbyville tradition!

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because they’re so attractive!

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hey, if it worked for the House of Habsburg, it can work for your oil dynasty as well.

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