What I claim in this particular example is that, since the secularization of progressivism/liberalism around the Enlightenment—and its pragmatist/utilitarian posturing—it has been having trouble deriving moral equality from first principles here, and deep down there’s awareness of that. So liberals desperately try to derive an egalitarian “ought” from an inconvenient “is”—even though nobody’s forcing them to!
This seems like an ok model to describe what his happening.
It is not at all obvious to me that any other hypothesis is needed to explain Gould. Why, he practically says that he kept telling himself “human equality is a contingent fact of history” until he believed it.
But Jared Diamond does appear to me to be deliberately concealing truths, because he is fairly careful not to outright lie (and because he used to be into human biodiversity).
This seems like an ok model to describe what his happening.
It is not at all obvious to me that any other hypothesis is needed to explain Gould. Why, he practically says that he kept telling himself “human equality is a contingent fact of history” until he believed it.
But Jared Diamond does appear to me to be deliberately concealing truths, because he is fairly careful not to outright lie (and because he used to be into human biodiversity).