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Actually it is rather obvious, that is HAS to be social structures and not the individual. Look at any statistics about any aspect of a persons life, and it is
by jernfrost 10y ago
Actually it is rather obvious, that is HAS to be social structures and not the individual. Look at any statistics about any aspect of a persons life, and it is almost always determined by that persons environment or genes. Evidence from the last years point towards that there is no such thing as free will. Studies show e.g. that we make our decisions way before we are conscious of it. Our rational for the choices we make, are most of the time post-rationalization. We makeup reasons after the choice has been made.
Put a random person from a bad neighborhood in a good one and they will almost always radically improve. You can look at IQ studies, correlation between IQ and genes is very high for a middle class, but very low for the poor. Hence middle class children reach the full potential of their genes while the environment is holding back the poor.
Look at the difference between West-Germany and DDR or North and South Korea. Huge difference in the outcome of each individual, yet it has nothing to do with personal traits but everything to do with the different society structures imposed on the people.
Focusing on the individual instead of society is also rather pointless as one can change society through policy but there is no way of changing an individual directly.
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