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The mantra in the’70s was that “people are all the same“. It wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now. There is a sizable group who would prefer to treat people as interchangeable. That is one step away from treating people as if they are disposable.

If we could get people to accept that intelligence is largely hereditary, we might be able to get them to stop looking for the witch every time outcomes differ. Then policy makers might come to grips with the fact that people are not the same.

We have been closing out economic niches for the left end of the Bell curve, for decades. This is manifestly unjust. Even if you do not believe that human beings have any intrinsic worth, you should remember that they all have trigger fingers.

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Excellent article, thank you.

Logic is the way to win an argument.

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