Funny how everyone keeps insisting that our recessive genes are more likely to bring harm rather than good.

I'm not saying that they don't bring about harmful traits, but that's the way nature works. Go through a huge bunch of combination until it comes up with a good one to proceed on. Or am I wrong?

Another point to ponder on.. if inbreeding is bad.. then why are we not mating with apes? Humans all in some way related to each other, so we should not be mating among ourselves. And if you go back to a time when there were only a few humans, it is very very obvious that inbreeding did take place, and that is what probably allowed each ethnicity to develop unique likenesses to suit the way of life and environment. eg. Those in sunny countries developed skin to survive in such an environment, people in cold developed sharper noses to be able to breathe in colder air without damaging their inner nasal cavities. If we really look at each ethnicity unique feature we can clearly see evolution. Which very likely would not be present if we continually resisted inbreeding.

I look forward to a rebuttal statement. ^^

EDIT: thanks for the reading material. After reading that I would like to point out that the inbreeding that is being discussed here is not selective inbreeding, as in we do not get to choose which to keep which to be rid of, but rather let nature be the judge of what to keep and what to be rid of. And obviously I am not suggesting that we should ONLY practice inbreeding, as other humans also posses traits that makes a super elite human. And by incorporating them by cross breeding and removing unwanted genes through inbreeding the human race is likely to progress through evolution much faster. =P