Quote:
|
Originally Posted by geetrue
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by STEED
Germany
Quote:
Couple stand by forbidden love
They share a small flat in an east German tower block on the outskirts of the city. It looks like an ordinary family scene, but Patrick is Susan's brother and they are lovers. "Many people see it as a crime, but we've done nothing wrong," said Patrick, an unemployed locksmith.
|
|
Precept upon precept, rule upon rule ... somewhere back in time someone figured out that their children
had too many toes and then it dawned on them why ...
Brother's and sister's are a no, no ... even cousins can cause problems in the blood line ...
fear probably keeps them from loving someone else. |
Yup, it is, and should be, illegal. There is plenty of evidence of the problems it causes in children born to such relaionships.
One intresting thing to note is that everyone in Europe is quite closely related anyway.
There is a simple way of showing this:
You have 2 parents. = 2 people
Your parents have 2 parents each. = 4 people
They have 2 parents each. = 8 people
They have 2 parents each. = 16 people
If we go back 2000 years we cover around 80 generations that means you should have:
2,417,851,639,229,258,349,412,352 people in your 80th generation
That's:
Two-septillion, four hundred and seventeen sexillion, eight-hundred and fifty-one quintillion, six-hundred and thirty-nine quadrillion, two-hundred and twenty-nine trillion, two-hundred and fifty-eight billion, three-hundred and forty-nine million, four-hundred and twelve thousand, three hundred and fifty-two
people in your 80th generation.
Obviously there where not that many people in the world in the year 0CE.
This number can only be explained by the fact that the calculation does not take in-breeding into account. Its possible to workout how much inbreeding happens in a population. The answer is:
A Lot! Most populations have 5-6deg of seperation between any two people being related, before motorised transport this was far, far less.