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Thread #63375   Message #1326634
Posted By: GUEST,Clint Keller
14-Nov-04 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ethics
Subject: RE: BS: Ethics
"Incest wasn't forbidden in all cases. On occasion it was mandatory. ie. Pharoahs in Egypt."

It was mandatory for the pharaohs for reasons of politics & power, as I understand it. Egypt then was a union of tribes, some with patrilineal & some with matrilineal descent, and to keep the pharaohship in the family siblings had to marry each other, But the common people had to marry outsiders.

Politics trumps ethics again.

clint