One of my friends just had the biggest rooster-block ever

[Maxwell.]

birth defects, mental handicapation

Incest forgets up your kids* genes.

is this 100% guaranteed to happen though?

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[Electrk.]

is this 100% guaranteed to happen though?

No but think about it: you're combining the same genes with hardly any variation. It's bound to cause some sort of problem.

[ShadowsfeaR]

is this 100% guaranteed to happen though?

They dunno what they're talking about. Those are only the biproduct of not breeding out those mental defects. So the chance of the child having those defects are higher, it does not mean they absolutely will turn out forgeted. Incest =/= borked children. Incest =/= higher percentage for borked children.

So it all depends on the genes present really. If your genes are near/at perfection, then your incest-babies won't turn out dumb. :)

[Steve5451²]

Two alike genes are going to bring out the shared recessive traits like mental handicapation and various other birth defects.

[Bisjac]

i would forget a second cousin.
hell i would forget a cousin.

just dont make babies or get married. it dosnt really matter

[Bisjac]

is this 100% guaranteed to happen though?

no


bad genes in the family line wont be bred out like they should. but they wont create NEW ones just because its an incest baby.

[Ninja Decoy]

The more distant you are from each other, the less likely something bad would happen to your child.

Child w/ sibling or child w/ parent has highest risk, while 3rd cousin has a much lower risk.

[Maxwell.]

child w/ parent

oh god

[$trinick]

They turned out to be cousins.
They can't date because that would be incest.
Do you just not read topics before posting in them?

No. They turned out to be second cousins. Second cousins don't share enough relation to be considered incest.

[0xBRIANSMITH]

Second cousins are distant enough that even if they had kids the increased risk would be negligible.

[Jairo]

didn't einstein marry his first cousin

[Moriarty]

didn't einstein marry his first cousin

didn't einstein die
obviously the two are linked.
don't marry cousins 2k14

[sir dooble]

didn't einstein marry his first cousin

Apparantly approximately 10% of all marriages in the world are between first cousins.

[Pencil42]

Incest is loveual activity between family members and close relatives.

Ripped straight from Wikipedia :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest

Incest
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the variable social/legal/religious/cultural infraction of human loveual relations with close kin. For the biological act of reproducing with close kin, see inbreeding. For the descriptive term for blood-related kin, see consanguinity.
Family law

Incest is loveual activity between family members and close relatives.

[Gumba Jonny]

my italian grandparents were second cousins
nobody in that side of the family talks about it
it's an embarrassment in society and even if i had a really hot cousin i wouldnt knock her up