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Culture is your value system, your sense of right and wrong, just and unjust, fair and unfair, it encapsulates aspirations, defines self-actualization...if cert
by twofornone 5y ago
Culture is your value system, your sense of right and wrong, just and unjust, fair and unfair, it encapsulates aspirations, defines self-actualization...if certain subcultures see clout in prison time, for a example, how could you possibly expect such a demographic to produce the same per capita number of convicts as a demographic which shuns law breaking?
And then genes have direct (e.g. warrior gene, brain structure) and indirect (e.g. hormone concentrations/sensitivity) influences on behavior and decision making. In addition to the heritability of intelligence which is going to influence both propensity for law breaking and conviction rate.
You can't celebrate diversity while only pretending that demographic differences are positive (itself a culturally subjective measure). That's a recipe for cross-demographic resentment and suboptimal legal and social outcomes, as we're increasingly seeing with this new generation of up and coming ideologues across our institutions.
People see sentiment like this and recoil in horror as though it justifies racism against individuals; on the contrary, these differences are merely shifts in normal-like distributions, i.e. we should still treat individuals equally in law and industry, but we must acknowledge that there will be average differences in outcome across demographics if we want a society based on equality of opportunity. Equality of outcome can only be achieved by handicapping the competent individuals that we rely on for progress of technology and civilization.
Despite what you may have heard, reality does not have a liberal bias, it unfortunately has a racial bias, because of the nature of evolution. Thousands of generations of adaptation to vastly different geographies has left it's mark, and denying this truth, while well intentioned, is dangerously misguided.