Reply #13: Incest in some cultures isn't considered immoral.

[Cleita]

Read Michner's Hawaii sometime. Among the royal Hawaiians or Alii, it was important for high born brothers and sisters to marry. The ancient Egyptians, Mayans and Incas seemed to have similar mores for their aristocracy. The Bible also notes that Arbraham's wife Sara was also his sister.

Michner brings up the fact that although, children born to such unions could be deformed, it also could emphasize good traits like native intelligence and tallness, important in the past. It wasn't a big secret that the deformed babies were dispatched at birth.