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First of all, if you know how a bell curve looks, then you'd realize that I did not say that *all* people of a particular race are innately smarter th...

Human races don't have their own unique properties, sure. But what is objectively identifiable is one's DNA and one's DNA relation to other people. Th...

Should we also reject the periodic table because it is a social construct?

I think that points #2 and #3 on JayMan's FAQ are a good response to the "race is just a social construct" argument: https://archive.is/rX8Uj/again?ur...

TBH, I frequently hear people talk about regular porn (whether of the gay or the straight variety). But Yeah, as much as I dislike the fact that some ...

You could imagine a video game where God appears before someone and requires them to commit pedophilia or else God is going to commit some extremely m...

To elaborate on my previous post here, the US actually did have alien suffrage in certain states up to the early 20th century or so. We could indeed b...

How exactly do you propose ruining this dictator's life? Other than of course by overthrowing and executing them, a la Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gadd...

I'd actually argue that it would indeed be fairer to get rid of hereditary voting rights and to have uniform voting rules for everyone, citizen and no...

That would likely make the problem worse rather than better. A ghettoized population might be more rather than less susceptible to radicalization. In ...

And for what it's worth, I'm not specifically targeting Israel here. I also support generous immigration policies for other countries--for instance, f...

Interestingly enough, Africa and Asia could achieve either population parity or at least close to this by 2100 thanks to Africa's population explosion...

Thanks for informing me about this book, Athena! I'll go look it up! :) BTW, are you the same Athena as from Historum?

Libertarians distinguish between nation-states and private property, but ironically their argument against nation-states (as in, that they were built ...

I think that categorically excluding all non-Jewish immigrants without close Jewish relatives or family members is too restrictive. I also think that ...

Frankly, one world is VERY dangerous due to the risk of global tyranny. No exit options! Exit options are absolutely crucial since that way people who...

But even for people who don't actually have an adult lover, we don't actually deny them sex dolls in other cases--for instance, if their sexual orient...

TBF, though, one could have an actual lover and yet use fake porn or dolls on the side--if, for instance, one is attracted to adults but also has a pe...

Anyone?

I doubt that it would be very politically correct to try testing for biological explanations for this, which is why to my knowledge no one is actually...

"because 'the never-to-be-conceived person' fails to denote anything." What makes you say that?

For what it's worth, there is Don Marquis's future of value argument in regards to abortion. I think that it's overly ambitious in its scope, but one ...

Yes, actually you should. If a particular human will never actually exceed an ape in intelligence, then that's an argument in favor of treating this a...

FWIW, in their book "Beating Hearts", Michael Dorf and his wife Sherry Kolb brought up the endowment principle to differentiate someone who is tempora...

Forgiveness is for those who ask for it and who genuinely want it, no?

AFAIK, black females are on average more crime-prone than females of other races are. Do black females on average have more testosterone, or what? Ser...

Can't it be both transmitted AND innate? For instance, theoretically, some white person could become a racist by reading about black crime, black dysf...

Technically speaking, the murder wouldn't be excused. The person would still be incarcerated. But they would be spared execution.

Castration could solve this problem quite nicely.

These two blog posts might be of interest to people here: https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/what-if-its-not-their-fault-the-myth-of-free-will/ ...

This is also why gene therapy could significantly change things in regards to this. If we are actually able to successfully alter criminals' biology t...

I'm not entirely sure if it would be viewed as being completely comparable to an insanity defense, since these people would have been sane and fully m...

Yeah, that's probably prudent, all else considered.

For what it's worth, I think that pronouns are necessary because they symbolize social sex (as in, gender) as opposed to biological sex. One's biologi...

FWIW, in addition to the risk of innocent people getting executed, I think that the strongest argument in favor of the death penalty is that people ar...

That's not necessarily wise, though, since these released serial killers could end up murdering WAY more than just one innocent person!

"This isn't "some prosecutors do it," the plea system is an integral part of how the US justice system works at a basic level." Does it operate signif...

"Although people generally won't say it, when they are presented with evidence of an unfair society in terms of ratios, they will internally fall back...

Honestly, I don't think that Communism was that much of an IQ shredder--at least not in regards to average IQ: https://www.google.com/books/edition/In...

Aren't black neighborhoods also the ones with the most crime, though? If so, then it sort of makes sense for cops to be there. It's not like cops are ...

Now of course it's VERY possible (and indeed probably even very likely) that some pedophiles will NOT be satisfied with harm-free outlets to express t...

@Bitter Crank: Technically speaking, even pedophiles have harm-free outlets to express their sex drives--such as child sex dolls--at least if the gove...

Apologies for bumping this thread, but I have a few thoughts to share: @andrewk: "What we say about paedophiles and homicidal maniacs (not psychopaths...