1372: On the Mark

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by Medium Brumski

As a biologist, this deeply offends me

sorry, I'm just a lowly mathematician who shouldn't dabble in such matters. How about: "probably have genetics that correlate with positive traits"?

[Medium Brumski]

Originally Posted by DWarrior

sorry, I'm just a lowly mathematician who shouldn't dabble in such matters. How about: "probably have genetics that correlate with positive traits"?

Swing and a miss. Everyone has genetics that correlate to positive traits.

If you really want I can go into rant mode about this subject, but it'll have to wait til morning.

[marina]

Originally Posted by DWarrior

There's something to be said for having access to better education, interacting in more refined circles, and probably having better genetics. I wouldn't go so far as to celebrate their wedding though, but I wouldn't call them "just any two strangers," either.

There's historical evidence that they actually have worse than average genetics, since they're all fucking inbred.

Aren't the two getting married cousins?

Yes they are. Thanks Google. How Prince William and Kate Middleton are related thanks to Tudor tyrant | Mail Online

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by Medium Brumski

Swing and a miss. Everyone has genetics that correlate to positive traits.

If you really want I can go into rant mode about this subject, but it'll have to wait til morning.

meh, I'll take a tautology and get out of the argument while I can.

But I'll read your rant.

[rodimusprime]

Man Jesse was going IN on people. Is there some sort of AA type group for people who are addicted to insulting their friends? I think Jesse may need help. LOL

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

You honestly think getting rid of race would eliminate culture and religion? So, essentially, you believe all cultures and religions are racially motivated? Isn't that kind of racist?

Again, I find myself agreeing with Bob. Humans seem to have this innate need to categorize things in order to know where they and others "belong." Maybe it's a primordial survival mechanism, part of our "reptile brains" or whatever. If religion and/or race disappeared tomorrow, we would come up with some other arbitrary reason to create "others" who we see as unlike us, and outside of our group, to hate and despise. This doesn't make it right, and it doesn't mean that we can't at least try to be better than that.

[Cretaceous Bob]

I don't think we find differences in each other because we innately try to; people are naturally different. Religion and culture are not superficial differences. People derive enjoyment from and thrive on diametrically opposed things; we do not create difference, it is ingrained into the world.

It is a quite liberal idea to think everybody can be homogenized into one blissfully happy mass, but it's also a quite liberal idea to think everybody's a special snowflake. These two ideas contradict each other. Compare any two people and I guarantee you they will disagree about something. Because no person shares a perspective of the world with another.

It's futile to try to go around stamping out things that cause differences between people. What people do about those differences is the real issue.

[Rhian]

Right Bob, but people will still be assholes and judge the other snowflakes for being different. And that doesn't make it okay.

Back to judging, I have never had a nice server at Nice Guy's, so I think that is justified when I am nothing but polite and they obviously don't want to work for the money.

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

Again, I find myself agreeing with Bob. Humans seem to have this innate need to categorize things in order to know where they and others "belong." Maybe it's a primordial survival mechanism, part of our "reptile brains" or whatever. If religion and/or race disappeared tomorrow, we would come up with some other arbitrary reason to create "others" who we see as unlike us, and outside of our group, to hate and despise. This doesn't make it right, and it doesn't mean that we can't at least try to be better than that.

We could just mutually unite, accept our differences, and hate Dolphins instead. Fuck those guys.

[Cretaceous Bob]

Originally Posted by Rhian

Right Bob, but people will still be assholes and judge the other snowflakes for being different. And that doesn't make it okay.

That's what I just said. Fix what they do about it, not what makes people different.