urzu_seven

urzu_seven t1_is8on7x wrote

Reply to How distant does someone need to be related to you to not cause any inbreeding problems? by PPHurt22

Assuming no history of inbreeding and little/no chance your future kids will inbreed, 1st cousin is generally safe as a one off. It raises the genetic risks a bit but not enough to be a red flag. Obviously there are present day social mores to be concerned about.

The further you go from that the better, about 5 steps is probably sufficient though (closest shared ancestor is your great-great-great-great grandparent).

But really the problem with inbreeding is repeated incidents, as you are narrowing the gene pool significantly. This is a concern in more insular communities (like the Amish) where you don't get a lot of people from outside adding to the gene pool.

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urzu_seven t1_irzjsgy wrote

Reply to How does bad stuff in the things we ingest (like mold) harm us if our stomach is literally just full of acid? by [deleted]

Acid is not magic, despite what spy movies and the like would have you believe it doesn't just dissolve whatever it touches immediately (if it did that would be bad for your stomach for example). The acid in your stomach is for breaking down food. It will also affect other things obviously but not everything. Depending on what you ingest it can be harmful before it gets to your stomach, inside your stomach, or after it passes through your stomach. It takes time and effort (churning) for your stomach to even break down the food you eat, and even that it doesn't do completely. Take corn for example, the shell of a kernel of corn can survive the entire digestive process and pass through into your stool intact if its not chewed well enough and pre-broken down. Our stomachs aren't the friendliest environments around, but they aren't the most hostile either.

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urzu_seven t1_ir19pdo wrote

Reply to I've heard some people say that as more and more people leave religion and become atheist, the murder and suicide rates have gone up. Is this true? by Mad_Season_1994

US States with the highest homicide rates (2017 data from the CDC)

  1. Mississippi - 20.50 per 100k
  2. Louisiana - 19.90 per 100k
  3. Alabama - 14.20 per 100k
  4. Missouri - 14 per 100k
  5. Arkansas - 13 per 100k
  6. South Carolina - 12.70 per 100k
  7. Tennessee - 11.50 per 100k
  8. Maryland - 11.40 per 100k
  9. Illinois - 11.20 per 100k
  10. New Mexico - 10.80 per 100k

US States with the highest religiosity rank (2016 data from Pew research

  1. Alabama 77%
  2. (tie) Mississippi 77%
  3. Tennessee 73%
  4. Louisiana 71%
  5. Arkansas 70%
  6. (tie) South Carolina 70%
  7. West Virginia 69%
  8. Georgia 66%
  9. (tie) Oklahoma 66%
  10. North Carolina 65%

States that are in both top tens (alphabetical)

  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • Tennessee
  • South Carolina

So the top 6 religious states make up 6 of the top 7 spots for highest homicide rates. Its not complete proof, its obviously specific to the US, and its far more complicated than "religion" which is too vast a term to be meaningful for arguments like this, for example the Mennonites are strict pacifists and are both highly religious but very unlikely to murder you. Meanwhile there are plenty of non-religious murderers. But this data does seem to refute the claim being made.

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