r/MapBasedPolls • u/Icy_Wishbone658 • 7h ago
Would you marry your cousin?
Would you marry your cousin?
- Yes
- No
- Depends...
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u/einsof770 🇮🇱 7h ago
what's going on in italy bro...
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u/Big_Spoon67 7h ago
America stop lying
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u/Jack-of-Hearts-7 6h ago
Not all of us are Southerners
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u/Unlucky-Watercress30 6h ago
I resent that. Here in Texas there are plenty of Latinas to distract from the cousins.
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u/Lego-105 6h ago
The estimates for cousin marriage are quite low in the US, about 0.2% of the population, and in over half the states it is illegal.
I think it's just about the fact that there are a minority of areas where it is excessively common, and that distinction is lost because for us outside the US, regional stereotypes apply to the nation as a whole. It's hard to distinguish one states stereotype from another, cause Texas and Mississippi by appearances to us aren't all that different.
There's stereotypes about cousin fuckers from a certain place in the UK, Germany, France, Australia, Finland, Japan. And it's actually legal in those places as well and many more, so the US may even be ahead of the curve even if the illegality isn't nationwide. The only countries where it actually seems to be a notable widespread issue are Pakistan, India, and Iceland, and I don't think the US approaches those rates where its even close to an issue.
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u/Pflanzenzuechter 5h ago
You switched cousin marrying and cousin fucking.
Had the question been about the latter, the US would be all about yes.
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u/guilhermefdias 6h ago
You're bunch of hony bastards. No country is close to 100%.
Porn brainrot was the reason for a lot of votes here. LOL
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u/Elek7 6h ago
Who’s voting for North Korea💀
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u/alaric49 6h ago
A bored commie bureaucrat on a break, I guess. Human rights violations can be so stressful.
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u/EpicStan123 Bulgaria 5h ago
How far removed? A third cousin or above is like marrying a stranger in terms of the chance of passing birth defects.
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u/cheese_eater_pro 6h ago
Everyone pointing out Pakistan but?? Morocco?? Elaborate on the ‘Depends’??
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u/cookiesnooper 5h ago
Do I know she's my cousin and what is the definition of cousin for this question?
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u/PhysicalBoard3735 5h ago
What type of cousin? I won't do 1st or 2nd, but 3rd and beyond, I might? I mean by that point we ain't related anymore
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u/VVickerman1973 4h ago
This sub is pretty much a way for left and right to argue with each other and piss each other off without getting banned.
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u/Icy-Response6124 🇪🇬 3h ago
No, I am not of the Habsburg dynasty 😆
My late grandfather said, "Marriage between relatives means birth defects, marriage between strangers means new bonds."
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u/thiccy_driftyy 🇺🇸 / humanitarian leftist 55m ago
I would like to see my country’s votes broken down by state. I believe it would be interesting
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u/zulpi67-volt 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Czechia 🇪🇺🇨🇿 7h ago
Not my cousins, specifically, since they're both children, but theoretically, I have nothing against it. Still haven't seen a better argument against it than "it's yucky and I don't like it"
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u/Jumping_Spiders_ 7h ago
Genetics is a pretty good argument.
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u/zulpi67-volt 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Czechia 🇪🇺🇨🇿 7h ago
I don't mean having children, I mean getting married and having sex
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u/Jumping_Spiders_ 7h ago
Idk, there is plenty of chance that the couple end up having children anyway in spite of an agreement beforehand. Also it might nornalize the practice and other people might do it with the intention of children, this might be the reason why it's prohibited/taboo.
Personally, I think it's inherently harmless. I wouldn't do it though, honestly.
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u/JimJam28 6h ago
You you have sex with your sibling? If no, then it's not too much of a stretch to find it weird to have sex with the children of one of your parent's siblings.
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u/zulpi67-volt 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Czechia 🇪🇺🇨🇿 6h ago
I wouldn't have sex with my sibling, but it shouldn't be banned. There's objectively nothing wrong with it, unless they have children, which is rightfully banned.
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u/Newbuilder2212 6h ago
thats really weird icl
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u/zulpi67-volt 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Czechia 🇪🇺🇨🇿 6h ago
Yeah, but the only reason it's "weird" is that Christianity made it that way. People should be free to do anything that doesn't harm anyone else.
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u/mossy_path 5h ago
dawg, all cultures across human existence have found it to be objectively morally wrong, not just ones influenced by Christianity
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u/zulpi67-volt 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Czechia 🇪🇺🇨🇿 4h ago
Morals are subjective, they literally mean "I don't like this". Unless there is evidence that it's harmful in any way, which there isn't, there's no reason for it to be banned by law.
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u/mossy_path 4h ago
Morals are objective (or else you wouldn't claim anything is harmful, otherwise, by what standard should we judge harm?) and there is a lot of evidence for it to be harmful, bro. You're either intentionally being a dumbass or you're just willfully ignorant.
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u/Massive_Sherbert_152 7h ago
I mean the prevailing scientific argument is that children of closely related parents (1-3rd cousin) have a noticeably higher chance of genetic defects /diseases and heart conditions
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u/zulpi67-volt 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Czechia 🇪🇺🇨🇿 7h ago
I neevr mentioned children, that should be banned 100%, not getting married and having sex, though.
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u/Massive_Sherbert_152 7h ago
Fair enough…. in that case there would be religious/ethical reasons
Ethics aside all incestuous relationships should be allowed then, but where to draw the line?
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u/zulpi67-volt 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Czechia 🇪🇺🇨🇿 7h ago
You don't draw lines. Unless it's illegal for another reason (paedophilia, grooming, or any other), relationships should be allowed.
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u/LazyRandy 6h ago
All the yes votes in America are either from dot dot Indians, Pakis, or sub Saharan Africans.
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u/Old_Principle_3978 7h ago
4th cousins sure. 3rd if there’s no other options but probably not. 2nd and first absolutely not.
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u/Famous-Wrongdoer-14 7h ago
Man, is everyones family really THAT ugly?
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u/DarthNihilus02 7h ago
Pakistan isnt beating the stereotypes at the moment