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<blockquote data-quote="juanxdoom" data-source="post: 3272821" data-attributes="member: 155415">Interesting question - and now I&#039;m going into wild yet interesting (to me) speculation.&nbsp;A child brought up in a stable household is more likely to be well-adjusted, well-fed and healthy, so encouraging stable households makes for a healthier, better-adjusted society. One way to do this is to try and ensure that only people in a socially-accepted relationship breed with one another to produce more fodder for the cultural grouping. Not only this, but you&#039;re also more likely to have the fodder accept the cultural conditioning if both of their authority figures accept the same cultural memes (hence marrying within the church).&nbsp;As to the moral codes that inhibit procreation, again they seem designed to keep procreation to stable, legally enforceable relationships rather than to prevent it outright. Allowing the culture to determine who may, and who may not marry gives them a degree of control over potential &#039;rebels&#039;, particularly those who might want to marry a more loyal member.&nbsp;Basically it&#039;s a giant (and probably accidental) eugenics program designed to create more hosts for the cultural memetics.&nbsp;...&nbsp;I think I have an idea for a story.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="juanxdoom, post: 3272821, member: 155415"] Interesting question - and now I'm going into wild yet interesting (to me) speculation. A child brought up in a stable household is more likely to be well-adjusted, well-fed and healthy, so encouraging stable households makes for a healthier, better-adjusted society. One way to do this is to try and ensure that only people in a socially-accepted relationship breed with one another to produce more fodder for the cultural grouping. Not only this, but you're also more likely to have the fodder accept the cultural conditioning if both of their authority figures accept the same cultural memes (hence marrying within the church). As to the moral codes that inhibit procreation, again they seem designed to keep procreation to stable, legally enforceable relationships rather than to prevent it outright. Allowing the culture to determine who may, and who may not marry gives them a degree of control over potential 'rebels', particularly those who might want to marry a more loyal member. Basically it's a giant (and probably accidental) eugenics program designed to create more hosts for the cultural memetics. ... I think I have an idea for a story. [/QUOTE]

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