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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Oh for god's sake that's not inbreeding. Inbreeding is within family lines not the greater gene pool. Are Eastern Europeans all inbred because they're more likely to get Crohn's Disease? I get what you're saying and you're not wrong about purebred health issues but you're certainly wrong about inbreeding and you're likely wrong about breeding for different, healthier traits.
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If the 'gene pool' is from a handful of breeding pairs that won the Westminster dog show or crufts in the 1940's and in order to get your registration you have to breed your dog within a specific set of dogs that also come from the same background then that's inbreeding, it is, in effect, breeding within a family, even if that family has been bred out to 60 million, Eastern Europeans aren't generally specifically bred to other east Europeans from the same village in order to get them to have ginger hair or the like, east Europeans marry all kinds of other people thus thining out and changing the gene combinations, sometimes they marry Genius's sometimes they marry a Trump, either way they aren't restricted to a small group of genes that contain hideous health issues that slowly, generation after generation, dominate their existance.
I out of five retrievers are genetically unfit, 20% totally certain to need expensive painful medical procedures no matter what to fix a condition because the Kennel Club decided in its infinite wisdom that dogs look cool if their back slopes downward to their tail thus giving the appearance of alertness.