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.
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.
Could you define what is a decent social culture?
Does it have slavery, human sacrifice?
Because the Aztecs and Ancient Africans considered that decent.