The gulf of tonkin incident involved the placement of missiles in a foreign country a cia-sponsored coup d'état in south vietnam torpedo boats attacking an american destroyer the daily bombing of north vietnamese targets

The correct answer is C. Torpedo boats attacking an American destroyer.

Explanation:

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident took place in August 1964 and it involved North Vietnamese warships that attacked warships from the United States. These attacks took place in two opportunities in the Gulf of Tonkin, which was a body of water near to what is today Vietnam.

The United States president at that time was Lyndon Baines Johnson. He demanded that the United States had not provoked the attacks saying that North Vietnam was the place where these attacks had begun.

However, some reports that were published after this conflict, showed that  the United States had provoked the attacks.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.