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By your rules a community of mostly blue eyed people has something genetically wrong with them.

Funny how eugenics doesn't work whichever way you try to slice it isn't it ?

A gene being recessive or dominant and being expressed in a group of individuals is not immediately a sign of 'inbreeding'. By that standard we are all 'inbreeding', everybody will have a number of recessive genes expressed, even if that does not lead to them having a different phenotype.

Inbreeding refers to a population too small to have a viable sized gene pool, one of the traits is exposure of recessive traits.

You're confusing the cause and the effect. Not all recessive traits are exposed by inbreeding, the vast majority of them are regular recombination in a lively genepool.



By your rules a community of mostly blue eyed people has something genetically wrong with them.

Well, yes. There are such communities, and they are inbred.


And the way you phrased your earlier comment, you make it sound like it's therefore OK to be prejudiced against people with blue eyes.

Maybe you personally aren't, and quite possibly that's not what you mean, but it is an interpretation of what you are saying.

If it's not what you mean, I suggest you think more carefully about how you say things.




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