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It is blasphemous these days to even entertain the thought that there might be behavioural differences between races, so gathering these statistics is like pick

It is blasphemous these days to even entertain the thought that there might be behavioural differences between races, so gathering these statistics is like picking the forbidden fruit.

scaramanga 5y ago
Not only is it not blasphemous, GP literally entertained the thought and stated it as fact. If you cannot afford a helmet, you are less likely to wear one, and if you get fined for not wearing on, it isn't going to incentivize you to buy one - it's going to render you less able to buy one. Or perhaps you are suggesting that black people are poorer because their ancestors adaptations to sunlight light have altered the way they handle their finances or respond to those incentives? In which case, you shouldn't feel like a blasphemer and should just expound on those theories here. Please, don't leave them unsaid because we are just going to have to assume what you think. And we might make the error of assuming that you are just a racist.
- axiosgunnar 5y ago
  Yup, just as expected - four paragraphs accusing me of not being orthodox enough, finishing up with calling me a heretic. Look up how black people go camping less, how they are better at sprinting than other races, etc. Do you think a certain race simply not biking that much is so dangerous of a thought, it should be illegal to even think about it and should result in one being called epithets, as you just did? Ridiculous.
  - scaramanga 5y ago
    I'm sorry but this appears to be unintelligible word salad? Are you replying to the right comment?
WalterBright 5y ago
It may not even be that. If, for example, one group rides bikes more often than another group, they may be cited for lack of helmet use more even if the percentage of helmet use was exactly the same and the enforcement was perfectly unbiased.

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It is blasphemous these days to even entertain the thought that there might be behavioural differences between races, so gathering these statistics is like pick

by axiosgunnar 5y ago

It is blasphemous these days to even entertain the thought that there might be behavioural differences between races, so gathering these statistics is like picking the forbidden fruit.

scaramanga 5y ago
Not only is it not blasphemous, GP literally entertained the thought and stated it as fact. If you cannot afford a helmet, you are less likely to wear one, and if you get fined for not wearing on, it isn't going to incentivize you to buy one - it's going to render you less able to buy one. Or perhaps you are suggesting that black people are poorer because their ancestors adaptations to sunlight light have altered the way they handle their finances or respond to those incentives? In which case, you shouldn't feel like a blasphemer and should just expound on those theories here. Please, don't leave them unsaid because we are just going to have to assume what you think. And we might make the error of assuming that you are just a racist.
- axiosgunnar 5y ago
  Yup, just as expected - four paragraphs accusing me of not being orthodox enough, finishing up with calling me a heretic. Look up how black people go camping less, how they are better at sprinting than other races, etc. Do you think a certain race simply not biking that much is so dangerous of a thought, it should be illegal to even think about it and should result in one being called epithets, as you just did? Ridiculous.
  - scaramanga 5y ago
    I'm sorry but this appears to be unintelligible word salad? Are you replying to the right comment?
WalterBright 5y ago
It may not even be that. If, for example, one group rides bikes more often than another group, they may be cited for lack of helmet use more even if the percentage of helmet use was exactly the same and the enforcement was perfectly unbiased.