Thread: Overpopulation

Originally Posted by tommo

Got any sources for those claims?

I can't be certain for it was a long time ago, but I believe Stephen Jay Gould tackles this IQ thing and race. People don't like it though, obviously, for if intelligent = good, and unintelligent = bad, then a race that is less intelligent than another will thereby be 'bad' in contrast to the 'good'. Thus we'll divide people rather than unify them.

I'm not putting my opinion here, nor whether IQ is a decent assessment of 'functional intelligence' or 'valuable aptitude'. Check out his work and others. ^_^




Whilst Xei remarks that truth alone cannot be a bad thing in and of itself... that we shouldn't shy away from truth, for it is indifferent and non-judgmental. It just is. And it's what we do with it that matters - it's not that simple... we can't get the truth and then just choose to keep it separated from the grander moral implications and consequences of it. I say, if the answer you seek has no decent purpose, then there's no valid rationale for undertaking a task.

Why would one seek for racial disparities in biological intelligence? Yes, we should be confident and accept the truth (easy to say), but when it by nature divides humans, into a sort of superior-inferior dichotomy, what do you expect? Sometimes morality should stop science.