incestinsect:

So, awhile ago, I compared peoples’ hate of incestuous couples to their hate of interracial couples and someone was like, “ARE YOU SERIOUSLY COMPARING THE TWO?! THEY’RE NOTHING A LIKE!”

Aren’t they, though? A lot of people used to think race mixing was this horrible, disgusting, sinful thing. They wouldn’t allow people of different races to get married, or have kids. Now, interracial dating and marriage is legal, and most people don’t even bat an eye at it. Mixed race people like myself are permitted to exist.

“Well, that’s different because there’s a higher chance of someone being born disabled if their parents are related.” People used to think that being mixed race was a disease, an affliction, a curse that your parents gave you because they just couldn’t resist temptation. Also, that’s ableist as fuck. That’s like people who are like, “If we knew that the fetus had autism, we would know if it was okay to abort it.” I mean, abort the fetus, I’m pro-choice, I don’t care, but it’s ableist to go, “If I knew my kid would be born with a disability, I’d abort it.” Also, you have no idea if that couple even wants kids or not. Maybe they just want to fuck. Maybe they just want to date. Maybe they just want to get married. Incestuous people should be allowed to have kids if they want.

Every argument against incest is either:

“It’s automatically rape.” It’s not. Adults can consent.

“Their kids might be born disabled.” Read above. Also, disabled people are born whether their parents were related or not.

“I think it’s icky.” I don’t care.

cornytyrannosaurus:

Aaaaand I would add that the “inbreed bad” thing is kind of a myth. Population dynamics does its best to avoid accumulation of detrimental traits, yes, however the enhancing of key features due inbreeding is also an useful tool for specialization when species evolve. the risk of genetic diseases for an immediate related couple is actually really low and depending of other factors that can also affect a child’s genetics (like the parents’ health, exposition to contamination and adictions, the parents’ age, congenital diceases, etc etc etc.) The nuances that would be considered to restrict consangs of having children (if they want and if they can because well, same-sex consangs exist) are just too contrived not to end in an eugenics scheme.

And, I mean, consangs are already pretty rare, they’re only many now because we’re more than 8 billion people, every minority can be numbered in tens of thousands these days. So there is no risk of mankind to become a race of crippled mutants as long as you don’t force relatives to marry if they don’t want ( I really wonder how everyone points as Hamburgs as anti-cest argument but really don’t stop to think why they ended like they ended).

Thaaaat kinda makes me wonder how badly we’ve screwed up our own evolution as species due the prejudices against minorities :|.

incestinsect:

I had no idea about any of this! I figured it was a myth since disabled people are just born, whether through ‘in-breeding’ or not.

It’s awful how much people have held themselves back because of puritanical beliefs.