1. WE NEED CHANGE
The state the game is at about inbreeding is rather deplorable... Even people that are into having 'clean' lions can't agree to what clean means. Making it a feature in the game would help this talk die down and unite most people on what should be considered bad. There will always be radicals... but apeasing most is better than annoying all.

However: there has been plenty discussions on how the devs should change things and at this point I just don't see it happening. what I'm here to talk about it how leaving it for the community to decide how to deal with has led to a pretty bad point that we are in right now.

Let me clarify what I mean.

2. WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE?

Having a clean line is not an easy task... specially if you don't have a short number of genations. Is a G24 less clean than a G2? No, but they are harder to keep track of who to breed with. To a clean breeder, it's just easier to discard them.

What about NCL's and Chased lionesses? Stock for breeding: they don't have a past, so use them and discard them. Sometimes lionesses and cubs are even chased for the slim hope of coming back as a chased lioness. Cuz then, only then, would they have a value.

Does that not seems... weird? Doesn't it leave a weird taste in your mouth? Inbreeding is not cool, sure. But to what point?

It also leaves a bad taste in the mouth that a lion can't be considered clean if there is any instance of inbreeding ever in their line. In real life, something can always be cleaned up later on with the right crossbreeding. Inbreeding is even used in efforts osf conservation, with the idea that, once there is enough organisms, crossbreeding will fix everything that is needed to.

So what if this lion had an inbreed ancestral 10 generations before? Does it make all does 10 generations of crossbreeding any less important? Do you guys not know how DNA work?

This line is DIRTY, so it can't ever be clean again.

Do you see what it sounds like? Do I have to spell it out?

3. MORALITY

People that have clean lions feel moraly superior. After all, they took the care to not inbreed their lions. But does the ends justify the means?

Do I want to inbreed my lions? No. But there is a limit. I'd be ashamed if I ever have to use NCL or chased just to "clean a line".

4. SO WHAT DO WE HAVE?

I don't know... When I started writing this, I did not care that much about this, I hadn't stopped to really think about it... To some, it may seem stupid to overanalyze a random online game, but the way this has been handled, by all sides, has left a bad taste in my mouth.

At this point, clean and dirty kinda feel derogatory to me. Should you be prideful of having an inbred lion? No. But I am just not sure about where the line is drawn.