Thread: Overpopulation

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

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.

There are uses for almost all of the data we have collected over the years using science. It may seem trivial at first, but it can almost always be put to use.
I can't think of any specific examples, maybe it could help us study how intelligence arose, or learn how certain factors affect it, or which areas of the brain create it and which of those is more advanced in certain people.
On and on.

Originally Posted by tommo

There are uses for almost all of the data we have collected over the years using science. It may seem trivial at first, but it can almost always be put to use.
I can't think of any specific examples, maybe it could help us study how intelligence arose, or learn how certain factors affect it, or which areas of the brain create it and which of those is more advanced in certain people.
On and on.

Yeah, I agree there'll be a use for it. But, I guess, people are sensitive... and if particular data downplays their worth, they ain't gonna be happy. I just think science in general goes forward as if humans are vulcans without much emotion, operating on pure logic.