Androme wrote...
Letting nature have its way without completely obliterating generations of evolution ensures that the genes are not mixed away and ruined on the altar of romanticization of miscegenation.
Also, (unlike you, no offense, just stating), and like I've mentioned before, there's also a moral aspect to this, and that moral aspect is taking into account the genocidal nature of interracial breeding. My arguments are not solely based on evolutionary consequences of interracial breeding.
"Mixed away and ruined"? Really? Your language, at best, walks a very fine line between "scientific" and "bigoted." Similar reasons were used for arguments outlawing interracial marriage and justifying racial discrimination.
Naim v. Naim (1965), for example, as dicussed in
Loving v. Virginia (1967), specifically used language like preserving "racial integrity," preventing "corruption of blood," describing the children of interracial couples a "mongrel breed of citizens," and calling interracial pairings the "obliteration of racial pride" in upholding the validity of prohibitions against interracial marriage before
Loving abolished them. Our society has evolved beyond "races shouldn't mix."
As far as the evolutionary argument,
****** sapiens is already out of the Darwinian stage of evolution. Much of the scientific community believes we've reached an evolutionary dead end, that human evolution is pretty much over. We change the world around us so much, adaptation is also generally a non-issue now. As far the rest of the community that believes human evolution is not over, well, the things we have to look forward to being taller, having fewer toes, smaller teeth, and other useless things like that. The most relevant of the bunch is weaker immune systems, but that has less to do with race and much more to do with our drug- and medically-obsessed culture. So what amazing genes are getting "ruined" on the "altar of miscegenation"? Is it blond hair and blue eyes, like a certain group of people wanted preserved a few decades ago? Shall we dispute the merits of that? No? Are there some amazing genetic qualities that some races have and others don't, which cannot be passed on to interracial offspring? Because there is a
list of diseases and medical conditions that are reduced by genetic diversity, and I, for one, cannot think of a single amazing gene that should and can only be preserved by "racial purity."
As far as your "moral aspect," genocide is done to unwilling victims. Who is the victim in a willing pairing of interracial parents? What exactly
is the moral aspect of interracial pairings? Whom does it hurt? Why is it wrong? If your argument is, "Interracial pairings dilute the purity of races," well then, I'd like to tell you about the moral implications of neopolitan ice cream - it dilutes the purity of three ice cream flavors! Jokes aside, we are people, not animals. Frowning upon interracial pairings because it "ruins" an electic array of hair, eye, and skin colors for you to feast your eyes upon is worse than no argument at all. If you meant the scientific argument that preserving diverse specimens is worthwhile, perhaps for study or documentation, then all you need are samples.
"Race" is largely a social construct, anyway. You can't say, biologically speaking, "all Russians are like this" or "all Greeks are like this," because it just isn't true. Nature didn't make race, we did. We still have the power to redefine what it means. Biological characteristics, which don't even entirely apply to racial groups, are not the worthy takeaway. They mean nothing. What does have meaning, at least to me, is how people lived - music, language, celebrations, literature, customs, clothing, ceremonies, cuisine, etc. These are the aspects worth preserving because they enrich our lives with art and joy and depth, much more than a pair of blue eyes or some freckles ever could. It's just like when you meet new people - what matters is
not the color of their skin but the content of their character. Choosing friends based on hair color or skin color or the shape of their noses is ridiculous - what matters is what kind of people they are. This won't ever change. So, who cares if we all become one "race" (biologically speaking), when it is the product of people's free will?
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On topic: Anything is possible. This is a fantasy universe, after all; things have changed over the the two games, and new things have been introduced, so I'm leaning towards "possible." A Qunari-human couple would be interesting to interact with in the context of a quest or larger plot line, but the Qunari would probably have to be ex-Qun for it to work in terms of story.
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