We're the healthiest and smartest generation in the last hundred or so years on average per person, yet due to a variety of systemic factors we're all totally handicapped to producing positive changes towards helping one another let alone many, and it's largely down to our systems being completely shit.
Companies want people to be healthy and smart to do work. But they also want people to be divided to smaller groups (e.g. bullshit rule about not telling your salary to coworkers). And companies pay as less as people can withstand so we will want to work more. And by working more we are more closed minded and angry and don't have a time to be kinder.
Idk if that's makes sense, but I'm just sad because of inequality and people (poor, short sighted people) willing to defend it.
Minorities (race/gender/religion/sexual orientation/gender identity/whatever) should be treated equally but not treated specially (no affirmative action/positive or negative stereotypes/etc) including celebrations/holidays or acknowledgements that they are the first XYZ person to do ABC. Those kind of details should be as utterly unremarkable as someone having a different eye color, different hair color, innie/outie belly button, being left- or right-handed, etc.
Otherwise, they are being given consideration based on some arbitrary trait rather than on character or other merits. And that consideration only serves to accentuate and widen the divide.
We currently live in a thriving bully culture. Every stupid fucking political issue were focused on is either preventing bullying or encouraging bullying. I think its about time we recognized that a huge percent of humans get a dopamine/feel good boost when they shit on other people. This counts for things as vague and superficial as someones appearance, up to whether or not someone should have rights.
Velcro is fine. It shouldn't just be for kids shoes: shoelaces are like ties: a pointless time waster we should have ditched as soon as we invented velcro.
(I have my 9mm beretta, an uzi, a kalishnakov machine gun I picked up in the Congo, 6 grenades, a machete and and broad sword and I'm going up on that hill over there so you come and take me down. C'mon all you motherfuckers try and say otherwise, pizza purist pussies!)
On average Black people have a lower IQ and and higher testosterone than White people. On average White people have a lower IQ and higher testosterone than Asians.
High testosterone is associated with violence.
There is a similar birth curve where black people on average have more babies but fewer survive than white and white more and fewer survive than Asian.
This explains birth rate differences and why mixing populations causes strange social effects.
These are provably correct but any discussion about it is considered taboo and controversial.
Whether the IQ part is true or not, there's basically no reason for the average person to bring it up or account for it. Doing so doesn't do anything except provide fuel for bigotry.
You also made a number of assumptions about the causes for lower IQ, survival rates, etc. It doesn't necessary have to be the result of anything inherent in the people. For example, economic disparity can also have an impact. Let's not forget that segregation in the US wasn't even that long ago: in the US at least, blacks essentially were robbed of generational wealth, educational opportunities. They had a higher chance of ending up in areas polluted by industry, forced to move by eminent domain, etc. Even today, people with black-sounding names are significantly (I recall around 50%) less likely to get a call back for job interviews.
IQ really doesn't just measure intelligence in a complete vacuum. Education is a factor, and people can learn to get better scores on IQ tests.
Finally, let's say for the sake of argument people with a certain skin color are just plain 10% intelligent. If you meet a random person, what does that tell you? You have no idea of whether that person is more or less intelligent than the average even if the odds are slightly higher that they'd be less intelligent. Intelligence also isn't necessarily that valuable all by itself: what's the point of a super powerful sports car with bald tires or an empty gas tank? One also has to be able to apply those abilities in a constructive way: so attitude, motivation, work ethic, etc are also all very important.
It wouldn't be hard for someone, let's say 20% less intelligent but that is dedicated to learning, analyzing their problems and is motivated to outperform someone that is 20% more intelligent but lazy and unmotivated.
The problem comes up when making policy. Let's say there are green people who average 10% less intelligent than purple people, and that jobs for smart people pay better than jobs for stupid people. Waving a magic wand to end racial prejudice and provide equal schools, safety, housing, and food would still leave the average green person worse off than the average purple person. You could wave the magic wand to end racial inequality of opportunity until your arm falls off and not get rid of the average pay gap between green and purple people because less intelligent people are being paid less no matter whether they are green or purple but more of them are green. If you want the average green person to be as well off as the average purple person, you need to make jobs for stupid people pay as well as jobs for smart people or take money from the mostly-purple rich and give it to the mostly-green poor.
If you are a commoner in an absolute monarchy or a subject in a dictatorship, maybe it's best for you to forget about that because policy-making is in the hands of your betters. But you probably live in a democracy which means you have a small say in policy and need to think about whether a policy will do what you want before you support it.
I agree that its ideal, but how would you even do that? Its so engrained into peoples' brains that I doubt it could even happen unless the vast majority of people agreed to not teach the concept to their children.
You're being bullied for believing that we shouldn't accept other cultures and we should accept other cultures instead. You immigrate in my country? You're learning my language, my culture. Not vica versa.
I didn't get in your country, you did. It's not your action that lead you to that point.
I mean, think of it like somebody gets in your family's home, and suddenly you have to adjust to their standards, not vica versa. Isn't that weird?
Why do we not do the same for countries? Because ""we're empathetic""? No we're not empathetic, our governments just want cheap, illegal labor. Which means, stealing the cheap labor from legal people who already have it in need. Or our children who turned to an age that they can work and can learn basic principles of working.
Look at France right now. Look at Greece, where ~70% of the crimes are committed by non-Greeks. Obviously, coz these people came from a country that either threw them away or from a radical country that they learned to behave like that from there.
But apparently if you say that, you're racist. No, I dont care about those people. I'm not afraid of those people. I would happily be friends with any of these people. But they're from a different culture, different country, and there can't be no demand to appropriate to THEIR culture. They get in your country, they should appropriate to YOUR culture, not vica versa.
Who is forcing you to adjust to their culture? As far as I know, all you have to do is not directly hinder their ability to maintain their own culture in a new place. I think you might be overestimating what is expected of you.
No you come to my country you appropriate to my culture. Otherwise, as it happens nowadays, if 10, 20, 30% are Shahid then stay at a country where they appropriate the shahid culture. Why you come to a country where they appropriate the Christian culture? It’s just weird. Don’t you wanna be with your fellow Shahids? Or Jihads? We don’t have Mosques for those cultures, now what we have to build and occupy area for other cultures? Are from my country? For someone else’s culture? That’s just mixing culture until the (illegal 99% and no they’re not “refugees” as TV likes to call them) immigration becomes so high that you just made your culture mine by occupying space and minds of the land I used to live with your own mosques your own protest ideologies and you live mostly by crime because why else come from a country with no war and you’re illegally paying thousands to get on illegal boats to come to Europe.
Downvote me all you want. Ethics have blurred your minds because it makes you feel better person coz “you accept people with needs”. No man, they’re illegal immigrants who have no right to come here and we exploit them, we don’t help them, for cheap labor to the point where they start doing crimes.
I’ve made even an excel sheet from trustworthy sources (my country itself released those) where despite the non Greek people are less than 10%, like 700k if we exclude EU citizens, they produce 70% of the crimes. This, is a statistic. Not “an ethic” principle. Not soft science. Hard robust statistics.
So, no, I ironically from really leftist in terms of Immigration and helping those people, went to “fuck it, this has many flaws and these people learned to live a different way and they don’t come here to make ethical business”
Representative Democracies have failed (are failing) like all other political ruling systems have failed so far. Some failed just faster than others that failed more catastrophically while some fail silently (agonizing). In the end all systems failed.
Nowadays you can cause riots by saying: Humans come in XY and XX chromosomes by genetic program, the correct expression of this genetic program leads to male or female genitalia and there's currently no medical or surgical procedure to change that, no matter how much you insist. So that was one notch less controversial.
Is your argument only that democratic republics will fail? Are you arguing that it would be better to implement democracy in a different way, or that it should be foregone altogether? I imagine most people would agree that they inevitably fail, but not that there is a better option.
I intentionally wrote: representative democracies. I'm not aware of any ongoing implementation of complete direct democracy, not even in Switzerland so I can't tell for those.
That dogs don't belong in cities. There should be a demarcation where dogs are not allowed to be and where it's illegal to own them. They are disgusting...