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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
The idea that we will soon control everything seems akin to other inaccurate prognostications.
The combinatoric explosion of interactions between new "control technologies" alone will introduce many new, unforeseen variables.
The world will still be uncontrollable in new unforeseen ways.
Comment · 9 years ago
Skin color is a relatively minor component of race, race describes the clustering of a whole host of traits and characteristics in a group of individuals.
Yellow-skinned Africans would still be Africans, purple-skinned Asians would still be Asians, and green-skinned Europeans would still be Europeans.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'd probably edit my children to be darker. Having spent a few days on the beach in Thailand, the genetic inferiority of my own fair skin is quite visible and painful.
Is this like reductio ad absurdum of PC signalling? Where do you spend the other 362 days of the year? In an environment that fair skin provides advantages for things like vitamin D production perhaps?
Comment · 10 years ago
I suspect he's saying that his daily payment on his house is roughly on par, or less than the daily rate of a high priced hostel.
You could have figured that out yourself without the attitude, right?
Comment · 10 years ago
What is the relevance of the image at the top here of a sub-Saharan African to an article about an ancient European philosophy.
An ancient European philosophy we know of today thanks to written language and a European civilization that developed, preserved and cultivated countless worldchanging ideas.(like the controlled conveyance of photons into your eyes relaying this information)
Written language was never even devised in sub-Saharan Africa!
These agenda driven, Magical Negro juxtapositions are becoming obscene.
Actually, there very much are.
I think what you're trying to say is that not all black people have all the "black people genetic markers," and likewise for other groups. This is true, but this is not necessary to distinguish well-defined groups.
Family resemblance is a philosophical idea made popular by Ludwig Wittgenstein
It argues that things which could be thought to be connected by one essential common feature may in fact be connected by a series of overlapping similarities, where no one feature is common to all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance