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Noam Chomsky was concise on this point: > "You find that people cooperate, you say, ‘Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.’ You find that they f
by RodericDay 11y ago
Noam Chomsky was concise on this point:
> "You find that people cooperate, you say, ‘Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.’ You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it."
Cordelia Fine also does a great breakdown of all of these "monkey does this, therefore women shopping men guns" arguments.
The nurture side of the debate has its "no nature" clowns, but the caricature by the top-level post is completely uncalled for in this context.
- Retric 11y agoThat's not an actual counter argument. You can say men are associated with blue for purely cultural reasons, because _ A: It's a 'just so' story which we can make about anything. B: very recently they where associated with red and pink was considered a less intense version of red. The B is an actual reasonable argument, where A has zero predictive power.