Can you find the Freudian slip in your post? Its a big one.
Do you consider that widespread knowledge of the scientific issues involved have changed the intensity of the taboo? For example, when Darwin married his first cousin, he had no qualms at all, but, through his researches, eventually came to realize that recessive genes (as we would call them today) were responsible for the early death of his daughter and bitterly regretted it. Isn't that a miniature of the historical process on this issue?
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Date: 2012-10-23 06:55 pm (UTC)Do you consider that widespread knowledge of the scientific issues involved have changed the intensity of the taboo? For example, when Darwin married his first cousin, he had no qualms at all, but, through his researches, eventually came to realize that recessive genes (as we would call them today) were responsible for the early death of his daughter and bitterly regretted it. Isn't that a miniature of the historical process on this issue?