Johannes wrote:
An other idea i have developed with some friends a while ago, that could
be used for ensuring genetic diversity, though we had thought about
isolated mounntain villages in fantasy settings at that time.
Parents have to exchnage their kids for ones from a different
valley/ship/.. . A priesthood acts as clearinghouse for for child
transfers.
Hello Johannes,
if handled carefully, it would assure that no two youngsters
from the same ship/valley have the same parents, and all are
genetically safe. Still, the thought is icky. And who says
that each kid will find someone for life in the small group
they grew up with?
Regards,
Onno
Sure it's icky, but then there are some practices even more icky in some
RL cultures. And it does not need to be that everyone finds someone in the
small group. If just most people find someone from their small group you
have genetic hazards and such a scheme starts to make sense, on a genetic
point of view at least.
Under hightech conditions you also can have a variant, where you restrict
people to artificial inseminsation, and the priesthood (or whatever)
decides what genes your child gets.
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