I think the metric for me is
1) do you believe in the first amendment
2) Do you agree with the second

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM

I believe in both.

noice

@Xychotic Funny enough, I also was in favor of that.

I'm so entrenched in evidence and nature that I couldn't abide many of the obviously wrong leftist conceits.

I'm like the libertarian version of luxury gay space communism

Like tabula rasa theory. It's blatantly false. It's central to their way of thinking.

You have commited crimes agaisnt skyrim and her people. Why say you in your defense

Well, when it comes time to make a choice, I always defer to reality.

Tabula Rosa theory is used for all kinds of bullshit stuff

Yep.

Even though mentally we are all not born the same

and there are clearly predispositions

And ability.

*cough* easily varifiable *cough*

Exactly.

So, when someone continues to try to use tabula rasa as a premise for real practice, it tells me they are not aligned with reality.

Now, I'll happily go through the mental exercise of tabula rasa as a hypothetical premise.

Because that's actually how you science.

You take a guess, work out where that would take you, and then compare to reality.

The easiest way to disprove it is to find something that clearly doesn't align with the premise

That is scientific

That's exactly how you disprove any theory...

yep

And it's not necessarily easy nor does it invalidate the whole theory.

*hypothesis, not theory

Depends on how important it is in the theory

Since we're talking science, those two have distinct meanings.

Like for example, disproving the Tabula Rasa theory is easy if you operate on the premise

But then you find out that certain metrics are wildly different

Well, we have the ammunition now. Handily.

But for a while, we didn't.

*COUGH* *COUGH* IQ data *COUGH* *COUGH*

That's not a part of tabula rasa.

tabula rasa is blank slate, which means you can program everything into a person

not "everyone is equal at birth"

The blank slate means that the programming is applied and accepted though

I mean its unrelated

Yes

The personality traits, now best defined by Big 5, vary between men and women let alone individuals.