You can't really dismiss the importance of either race or culture. They're both hugely important and to turn a blind eye to one or the other is to be a fool. A good culture can enhance strengths and mitigate shortcomings, while a bad culture will poison everything. Race largely determines your baseline settings though, which is pretty important too.
A less verbose summary being: You value virtue over aptitude.
While I can respect that position, I retain my suspicions that there is a minimum requisite aptitude required in order for virtue to manifest. To be blunt there's a lot of people who are so stupid that they lack the capability to discern right from wrong.
Discerning right from wrong is neither necessary nor a sufficient condition to act rightly.
A lot of people know what's right, and simply don't care, or don't bother.
On the other hand, if you have a decent social culture, people don't need to know what's right - they can just do what humans - and baboons and wolves for that matter - are programmed to do, conform, and act correctly.
If your society has too many stupid people you won't have a decent social culture. The memes have to come from somewhere. Collective tradition can make up for lack of individual foresight, but only to a point. Also unlike wolves and baboons we have largely moved beyond darwinism. The lack of survival of the fittest allows cultural deadweight to thrive.
Discerning right from wrong is neither necessary nor a sufficient condition to act rightly.
This is the dumbest shit I've heard today.
Sure you can bumble your way into doing the right thing while being absolutely brain dead, but that doesn't mean I'm going to trust you to do so because you're fucking brain dead.
You can't really dismiss the importance of either race or culture. They're both hugely important and to turn a blind eye to one or the other is to be a fool. A good culture can enhance strengths and mitigate shortcomings, while a bad culture will poison everything. Race largely determines your baseline settings though, which is pretty important too.
A less verbose summary being: You value virtue over aptitude.
While I can respect that position, I retain my suspicions that there is a minimum requisite aptitude required in order for virtue to manifest. To be blunt there's a lot of people who are so stupid that they lack the capability to discern right from wrong.
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But I had breakfast!
I'm not familiar with that one.
Might I introduce you to Cippola's 5 Laws of Human Stupidity?
Thanks, I hate it.
Discerning right from wrong is neither necessary nor a sufficient condition to act rightly.
A lot of people know what's right, and simply don't care, or don't bother.
On the other hand, if you have a decent social culture, people don't need to know what's right - they can just do what humans - and baboons and wolves for that matter - are programmed to do, conform, and act correctly.
If your society has too many stupid people you won't have a decent social culture. The memes have to come from somewhere. Collective tradition can make up for lack of individual foresight, but only to a point. Also unlike wolves and baboons we have largely moved beyond darwinism. The lack of survival of the fittest allows cultural deadweight to thrive.
This is the dumbest shit I've heard today.
Sure you can bumble your way into doing the right thing while being absolutely brain dead, but that doesn't mean I'm going to trust you to do so because you're fucking brain dead.
Could you define what is a decent social culture?
Does it have slavery, human sacrifice?
Because the Aztecs and Ancient Africans considered that decent.
Given that Africans got a lower IQ, there is a lesser chance they would pilpul God words to justify "do whatever you feel is right in your own eyes".