> >My fellow rat-bastards Alberto and Bemmzim mention that one must have a dwarf >parent to be a dwarf. > >That sounds false. I mean, in the old times, dwarfs would have had a less >chance to have children, > Why? Maybe they had _more_ chance to have children, if their number was small wrt the total population.
>and so would have died out by now, unless someone >deliberately kept dwarfism alive. > But this was precisely what happened. >That seems fine in dogs, because dogs >don't care if they're dwarfs or epileptic or not [well they do boss if it >causes them pain], but people certainly do care if they're freaks or >perceived as freaks. > Yes, people are aware of freakness, and each freakness has people that love it. Alberto Monteiro
