Just recently noticed some states in America allow marriages between first-degree cousins. Why? That sounds horrible lol. Yeah maybe doing it once or twice every 10 generations isn’t so horrible but, I mean, I don’t understand genetics all that well but marrying someone who shares 12.5% of your DNA with you sounds like a recipe for getting congenital diseases

I get ppl ‘shagging’ their cousins and whatnot, but marrying them? What are people thinking?

The reason I saw this is because in my current playthrough of CK2, my dynastic members kept marrying within the family (usually generations apart, so the two spouses would only share like a great-grandfather or great-great-grandfather), which would be fine if they didnt do it over and over... I’ve already seen shitty traits like ugly, weak and slow (dumb, for those not familiar with the game) pop up...