Incest: Excluding the morals why is it wrong?

Answer 1

birth defects

genetic mutation

Answer 2

The gene pool is limited. So it can enhance a good gene or enhance a bad gene.
Sex between close relatives, including parents and children, has been observed in some species, although patterns of parenting behaviour and the structure of dominance hierarchies serve to discourage inbreeding. For example, offspring—sometimes only the male offspring—are often driven away by the mother about when they reach sexual maturity.

Inbreeding increases the frequency of homozygotes within a population. Depending on the size of the population and the number of generations in which inbreeding occurs, the increase of homozygotes has positive or negative effects.

Definition of close family members also varies between society.
The more primitive and aggressive the society, the more strict and elaborate the set of incest prohibitions and the fiercer the penalties for their violation. The reason may be economic. Incest interferes with rigid algorithms of inheritance in conditions of extreme scarcity (for instance, of land and water) and consequently leads to survival-threatening internecine disputes. Most of humanity is still subject to such a predicament.
Nor is the taboo universal. In some societies, incest is mandatory or prohibited, according to the social class (Bali, Papua New Guinea, Polynesian and Melanesian islands). In others, the Royal House started a tradition of incestuous marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensual incest than others (Japan, India until the 1930's, Australia). The list is long and it serves to demonstrate the diversity of attitudes towards this most universal practice.

Answer 3

Of itself, incest is not wrong at all. Provided it is consensual there is no reason not to do it. Incest between parent and child will change the power relationship between them, which is something to think about before making or accepting any offers.

Children born of close relatives often suffer from nasty birth defects so it's inadvisable to have a child by incest. Use contraception and everything will be all right.

Answer 4

Since morals includes the ideas of right and wrong, your question makes absolutely no sense.

Truth is the most precious thing we have and is also the most fragile. Lust always perverts the truth. We can rationalize any behavior with the motivation of justifying lust. We tell ourselves that the other person is willing, that God made us that way, that it doesn't do any harm, etc. Giving into lust is allowing self delusion to take us away from the truth.

Answer 5

The basic rational is that the potential for passing on dangerous genes to the offspring increases with incestous progeny. Somehow, ancient peoples must have had a clue. Many ancient tribes placed a premium on marriage outside the group, often including kidnapping or negotiation from other clans. Does this make it morally wrong in every given instance? Of course not.

Answer 6

My ex remarried to a first cousin and had a daughter....He was very unhappy and they kept the secret from their daughter....he felt conviction and mental anguish...they did drug abuse and alcohol and he had a break down so they divorced...He is doing better but the women still does drugs abuses and the poor daughter is caught in the whole mess. I think it was the center of all their being and could of been prevented if they listened to their conviction rather than fall for the perverted sex that enticed them into the whole mess......

Answer 7

Hunh? When you exclude the morals, nothing is wrong...

However, incest is a bad idea because it leads to inbreeding. When people mate with close genetic relatives, there's a very good chance that bad genes will spread to the offspring. That's why, in places where there's inbreeding, there's a lot of people born mentally retarded, or with other hereditary illnesses.

Answer 8

Simply: Genetics. Incest causes severe birth defects. I am not sure exactly, but I know it has an effect on DNA and the chromosones.

Answer 9

The Old Testament makes very clear that incest is a sin. That is enough answer for me.

Answer 10

Inbreeding causes birth defects... However, coming from a person who's grandparents were cousins... Love is more important than society's view of incest.

Answer 11

It was a sensible action to brand as a 'sin' because it was well-known many years ago that children of closely-related parents were often deformed due to genetics.
Other than that, if pregnancy can definitely be avoided ....

Now refer to the fable of Adam and Eve .......