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This fella.
It represents my contempt for the world and at the same time my inability to act in it, forever reducing me to an object of mockery and amusement to others.

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I’m under a lot of pressure but it’s the kind of pressure that’s transforming me into a real, strong expression of how I define masculinity. I’m in the process of “becoming”. It’s not pleasant most days but I take a kind of soul satisfaction from it.
> “The Iceman Cometh”

>>14017480
The stories are meant to convey the moral message. The experience they had proved the point ‘author’, if you want to call them that, was trying make, thus making their message true. Hence the foundation of the belief system via allegories and parables.

>>12177203
Kek, move to Syria then anarkiddie

>>11804954
I am wondering about this conundrum all the time.

If there are differences in the median IQ of different races, that certainly merits research and discussion of said research in the literature.

However, I think a lot of folks are determined to promulgate their beliefs that their race is better than others, and they will latch on to any bit of research or any insightful analysis that seems to accomplish this.

As such, this research and it's analysis is easily weaponized.

To avoid the injustice that this might cause (e. g. dumb fucks getting away with not hiring a high IQ black guy and hiring a low IQ white guy instead or whatever), doesn't it make sense that we keep the "all men are created equal" paradigm intact in our society, at least insofar as we set the laws and policies, and even the unlegislated social norms?

I think it's analogous to how Robert Sapolsky and lots of other researchers suggest that free will doesn't exist in the way that our criminal justice system seems to suppose. People who commit crimes could be seen as slaves to their base desires or whatever, because neuroscience and determinism, etc, etc. (best example I can think of is Charles Whitman, who shot a bunch of people, but did so while afflicted with a severe brain tumor, and who doubtfully would have committed any murder were it NOT for this organic brain condition). Nevertheless, I think our society NEEDS the free will paradigm in our criminal justice system and elsewhere. Even if it's not strictly "true", or not mechanistically accurate, it's too useful as a guiding principle for us to give it up yet.

Perhaps the racial equality paradigm is the same thing--too useful to dispense with. At least for now...