Actually, the only reason NOT to marry a cousin is social pressure. Genetically, the risk of "bad stuff" happening due to that amount of inbreeding is very very small.
Assuming, of course, that the family doesn't make a habit of the practice, and you're cousins from multiple directions at once.
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