Incest vs Family; How Far Back Can You Still Call It Incest?

   Think about it; the term "family" is just an idea to keep us at bay with our loved ones, and incest is closer than you think.

   We are all "family". That can be a literal term, or a hypothetical term, or even a symbolic term. Family - technically - can go either way with what you believe it is. By a law in space and time, we are all connected in some shape or form. Our ancestors got together with other ancestors and had children to then later have children themselves. Thus after centuries of population growth, it's hard to tell where you came from a long time ago. Science today can tell you who your grandparents came from and then where you're parents came from and so on, but if you dig deep enough, you'll find that, in a long ways away in time, you could be my cousin. You could be my uncle in law, or even a great, great uncle or aunt in law, or what ever. In brief, we are all blood related in some way, because we all came from an ancestor from a long time ago. You are married to someone related to you. Does that make is incest? Where do we draw the line where we aren't 'technically' genetically related so that we can marry and produce offspring?

   An interesting thing to think about, is that when people too closely related to one another have a baby, that baby is given birth defects. Whether it be physical or mental. Either way, incest mating will create birth defects. But since we are all related, due to the ancestor law, shouldn't that make all of our children born with defects? It's actually from how far away blood relation goes that depends the birth defects related to incest. It's not always certain, of course because birth defects can happen in a matter of ways such as smoking during pregnancy, but if there wasn't a problem with things like that aside from incest, then could we tell who our long lost ancestor's offspring are? Could science see this and find out how to pinpoint how far back in time can we go to find how genetically close we are to our spouse? ... It's only a thought. We are all blood related either way, so thus, we are always family. Humans themselves are family; a huge family. We share hearts and brains, and we share compaction towards one-another. Incest is actually just a thought brought by humans just as family is. How far back do YOU think you need to go back into your family tree to draw the line between incest and love? ..Think about it.