I agree with you that there’s a difference between treating groups differently based on differences that actually exist, and based on differences that don’t actually exist, and that the second thing involves a kind of unfairness that’s different from the first thing.
That said, it does seem to me that a lot of people not only think that racial genetic differences in intelligence don’t exist, they also think that if racial genetic differences in intelligence did exist, that would be a bad thing, in a way that they don’t think that the existence of individual genetic differences in intelligence are a bad thing.
Yes, thanks for clarifying.
I agree with you that there’s a difference between treating groups differently based on differences that actually exist, and based on differences that don’t actually exist, and that the second thing involves a kind of unfairness that’s different from the first thing.
That said, it does seem to me that a lot of people not only think that racial genetic differences in intelligence don’t exist, they also think that if racial genetic differences in intelligence did exist, that would be a bad thing, in a way that they don’t think that the existence of individual genetic differences in intelligence are a bad thing.
Do you disagree?