then the solution to removing certain undesirable traits (like criminality) would be banishment/disenfranchisement etc of an entire race of people, or outright genocide.
Notice how your attempting to equivocate between mass murder and disenfranchisement. Those are two very different things. One is obviously (terminally) bad. The other is at best an instrumental problem and we need to estimate its consequences to see whether its actually bad.
Secondly, you say that you recognize that environment is the cause, but you immediately go back to referring to them as “racial differences.”
The causality is environment → genetic differences → different behaviors. If a causality chain with more than one term is too complicated for you, I recommend you start by reviewing causality 101.
This is the phrasing that leads to race-based thinking, and thus prejudice and discrimination.
Well, I’ve just argued your definition of “race-based thinking” is rather confused and isn’t clear a bad thing, so would you please provide a better definition and an explanation before you continue using the term. Also while you’re at it could you define “prejudice and discrimination” and how it differs from using Bayesian prior to help make decisions.
What?? The Communist famines and purges were results of sociopaths killing their political enemies and delusional economic policy. Not egalitarianism, but believing that the country would survive fine if everyone stopped producing food and instead was forced to make metals.
The purges were targeted at kulaks, i.e., the people who were doing better, because that kind of thing can’t be permitted in the new egalitarian communist utopia. So yes, these are in fact “egalitarian” failures.
If I killed your dog, would you consider it okay as long as I pointed out that other people have killed more dogs than me?
A better analogy is that you’re arguing that we should avoid thinking X because some people who think X have shot dogs, I’m pointing out that people who (falsely) think not-X have shot far dogs than people who think X.
Notice how your attempting to equivocate between mass murder and disenfranchisement. Those are two very different things. One is obviously (terminally) bad. The other is at best an instrumental problem and we need to estimate its consequences to see whether its actually bad.
The causality is environment → genetic differences → different behaviors. If a causality chain with more than one term is too complicated for you, I recommend you start by reviewing causality 101.
Well, I’ve just argued your definition of “race-based thinking” is rather confused and isn’t clear a bad thing, so would you please provide a better definition and an explanation before you continue using the term. Also while you’re at it could you define “prejudice and discrimination” and how it differs from using Bayesian prior to help make decisions.
The purges were targeted at kulaks, i.e., the people who were doing better, because that kind of thing can’t be permitted in the new egalitarian communist utopia. So yes, these are in fact “egalitarian” failures.
A better analogy is that you’re arguing that we should avoid thinking X because some people who think X have shot dogs, I’m pointing out that people who (falsely) think not-X have shot far dogs than people who think X.