Let's say your family tree begins with someone who is orphaned in a ditch on the side of a road in the Netherlands. Let's say also that of the 5 branches of that family, your branch of the family immigrated to the U.S. after WWII.Decades later, you open the newspaper (read: surf the internet) and an article with your family name catches your eye. Oh, look, someone you are obviously related to in some way is suspected of a murder! Oh, wait, he was also suspected of a murder 5 years ago! Does this cancel out your grandfather's smuggling of Jews and identification papers across state borders and giving intelligence on German operations to the Allies during WWII? Your uncle's work in a home for the dying in Haiti? Will your children all become serial killers?
A quick trip to ancestry.com unveils your genetic relationship to this potentially sociopathic and psychopathic individual. Yay! He's your 3rd cousin!
Taking a greater interest, you read articles back from 5 years ago up to today. Oh, wow, he is not only the prime suspect in two murders, he also sold Thai women into sex trafficking slavery! You can't believe how much he has accomplished despite having a mental illness.
Maybe if he were more like Dexter and only killed bad guys, you would feel okay reproducing and possibly passing on a latent serial killer gene.
Or, maybe you should just adopt . . . .
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