Message from @Schedrevka
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abolishing universities or IQ filtering?
idk
closed borders? because taking away high iq people from other countries makes them worse?
The ultimste irony is that what the book said about african americans is almost exactly the same as what SJWs say about african americans. The only diff is that SJWs blame "structural racism" and Murray blames "genetically low average IQ"
Arguably if you build a society that assumes (for example) that everyone is 120+ IQ this is actually structually oppressive to lower iq people
I'm curious what percentage of the population lives in a 20 mile radius of a university
I wonder if Murray would support affirmative action for low IQ.
Why would that help if he believes it's largely genetic?
according to wikipedia the only concrete policy recommendation they make is "stop implicitly subsidizing lower class people from having tons of babies, because it's lowering the nation's collective average IQ"
Affirmative action would be hypothetically to prevent the mentioned poverty trap.
Or, simply force everyone with a low IQ to preform manual labor.
Though technically speaking, IQ scores are rising by about ten points a decade and the average keeps having to be repositioned
you can actually influince average inteligence of a population of a relitively short period of time but relitive is many generations. its kinda obvious that on average african americans test a higher iq than their counterparts in africa. they are in an envirnment where intelegence has become a sexually selective trait for them, atleast before 40 years ago. not only that we highly suspect that the ashkanazi jewish population of europe represents a group of people whos inteligence increased at a rate disproportionate to all other european populations surrounding it in just 1500 years.
i am curious, anyone here for more gun control, i just want to find another viewpoint..
i think @I AM ERROR has mentioned an interest in guncontrol in the past
Genetics can change pretty quickly in some cases. It takes around 13 generations for a species living in safety to lose instinctual fear of predators
But it is possible that they never lose that fear too. For example cats are afraid of cucumbers because they see it and identify it as a snake even without ever encountering a snake.
schedrevka might be referencing the mouse utopia
I think that's a differen't level of instinct. Like a jump scare vs actually having something in front of you
I was talking about a study that was released this year
Look up Japan's rabbit island for a real life example. They were kept their for ww2 chemical experiments and then released when the scientists left the island. They come back a decade later, and the rabbits are EVERYWHERE and now you can go there as a tourist and lay down in the park and they'll walk all over you hoping for treats.
jeez, 13 generations to stop fearing Hollywood tycoons?
@Zuihou depends on what you mean by that 😄
ok, current gun control laws, do we need more or less?
or 3rd option?
first of all you need your current ones to be actually enforced, than you need them to make fucking sense.
That sounds about right
pretty much same line of thought..
You can tell how politicized it is based on how little the proposed solutions reflect the problem
now, since we have a federal serial number system, do you think the firearm serial number should be following car vins system?
in where they should be placed and how lost/stolen firearms should join a easy to search system?
and as a ground rule: giving the general populace the rights to bear arms is stupid af. the idea that you achieve anything positive by trying to get rid of the guns in the usa is retarded.
It really isn't. It's a fundamental necessity of a free society
but us has the freedom to bear arms
it doesn't have a "as long as you pass certain tests"
Yes, I'm saying that idea isn't stupid
thus why US is weird..
It also has the greatest potential of all Western nations wrt not turning into an Orwellian shithole
and i joined a debate forum and you know what they told me when i mentioned the 2A, "not a valid argument since it is only for the US and not to other countries" when the topic was pertaining to US gun control :V
to answer your question: that system you mentioned sounds kinda reasonable, i would need to know how it actually works to see if would be a good thing
Fundamental necessity to *maintaining* a free society