When Incest and Marriage Collide

Man forced to marry four wives in six months

When your family tree has no branches because you keep marrying inside your own family, is there any wonder that you wind up in a mental hospital?

This is the kind of thing that burns me up when people say we need "honor other cultures." This culture involves taking multiple wives from within their own family trees. Even if you disregard our own social prohibitions against that sort of thing, that's a recipe for all sorts of genetic problems - like insanity, for example.

The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice. Many African cultures practice female genital mutilation. The list goes on. Just because a native culture exists doesn't mean that it deserves to keep existing despite what many bleeding-hearts say.

There is such a thing as cultural extinction - whether it's natural or forced on it by another culture. It's not always a bad thing, and I think this article is a perfect illustration of a culture in serious need of extinction.