<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 17, 2022, 11:55 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
If you ponder the father = great grandfather dilemma, I have an even thornier one for you, also related to DNA genealogy.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't understand why that's any dilemma other than cultural taboo. I understand inbreeding is bad for genetic diversity reasons at general population level, but as we take manual control of fixing outright defects what difference does it make?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I make the same point about ye olde artifacts of food safety: don't eat pork because dirty animals (whatever religious reason) and cross-species infection. Now that we have better processes and refrigeration the other white meat is probably cleaner than the latest round of recalled lettuce; is the prohibition on pork still a good idea or is it an unquestioned tradition of kosher eating?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Heh, "don't run with scissors" is good advice but might have legit exceptions. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I ask a lot of questions. </div><div dir="auto">Answers lead to better questions. :)</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div>