The Incest Taboo And Genetic Load

Some day we'll have biotechnology that will enable parents to prevent their children from getting harmful recessive genetic variants. The genetic harm from making babies with close relatives will vanish once the harmful recessives aren't passed along. At that point would you still favor laws against incestuous relationships? One reason to remain opposed: the resulting high level of genetic similarity across generations will likely increase loyalty to family at the expense of loyalty to the rest of society. On a somewhat related note: We all have lots of mildly harmful genetic mutations, only some of which are recessives. The non-recessives (i.e. the ones that harm us when we have just one copy of them) are reducing your level of functioning...
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