Why is incest wrong? I'm not saying it's not, I'm just interested to hear you explain it.
Society just looks at incest as being unnatural and distasteful. In some cases some say inbred children may suffer with disabilities or their genes may lack genetic diversity.
Although the risk seems low, it is actually many times the risk if you do not marry your first cousin. Genetic diversity has repeatedly been proven to be better for overall health, as if you inbreed, the risk of your children inheriting 2 faulty recessive alleles (gene) are increased, as they may be passed down in the family. 2 different families are very unlikely to have exactly the same mutations, and the existing ones will eventually be bred out by not being expressed or inherited.
Some royal families in the past have inbred so much (to keep the blood line 'pure' it destroyed their family tree, as their children were so disabled they could not reproduce e.g. charles hasburg- 'did not speak until 4 or walk until 8'
So basically, inbreeding is wrong morally, and risky medically, but its lucky if the children dont inherit any dodgy genes...
but...: WHY TAKE THAT RISK? when there are 1000s of people other than those in your family you could marry???
morally these days society looks down upon it but it used to be common practice and is not actually a criminal offence and the blood connection is classed as weak enough to not be incestrious
i personally wouldn't disagree with marrying your cousin. morally, society believes it to be wrong - being that you share the same 'blood.' personally, i wouldn't marry my cousin - but if two people love each other then they have the right to be together! regardless on whether or not they are cousins!
listen i understand these r changing times but let's not normalise incest you guys... there's at least a million people to choose from, surely it isn't that hard to find people other than your cousin