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Your comment was flagged because you're arguing against a strawman of liberal ideology. If someone holds your views, then you don't need to convince them. If

Your comment was flagged because you're arguing against a strawman of liberal ideology. If someone holds your views, then you don't need to convince them. If someone doesn't hold your views, then you haven't given them any more information. In either case, it doesn't move the conversation forward. All it can do is provoke a pointless argument. Hence, flagged.

Vt71fcAqt7 4y ago
Is it a strawman if the editorial referenced by the article basically holds GP's point (as I remember it at least, I can't see it now) >In creating this guidance, we took as a starting point the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — humans are “free and equal in dignity and rights”[0] This document was written before the discovery of the double helix. How can we take it as a starting point? I think the flagged post was perhaps flame-baity, but I don't think the point you're making is so cut and dry. As I remember it, GP's argument was that liberal ideology holds the equalness of all people as a fundamental truth rather than a result of inquiry. That seems to be what is happening in reputable scientific jounals. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2
- narrator 4y ago
  Let's say a researcher wanted to do a study to find out what gene polymorphisms are associated with better performance on standardized tests. Nope, can't do it. Might reveal that some people, or God forbid kinds of people, are genetically less intelligent than others and that is a forbidden conclusion. Heck, this post might even get flagged because it raises the possibility that this proposition could be true. Meanwhile, in other countries, they are offering gene modifications to insert these genes discovered by researchers doing this forbidden research into consenting adults. Anyone in the west who would want to confirm their research would get locked out of the database.

Vt71fcAqt7 4y ago

Is it a strawman if the editorial referenced by the article basically holds GP's point (as I remember it at least, I can't see it now) >In creating this guidance, we took as a starting point the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — humans are “free and equal in dignity and rights”[0] This document was written before the discovery of the double helix. How can we take it as a starting point? I think the flagged post was perhaps flame-baity, but I don't think the point you're making is so cut and dry. As I remember it, GP's argument was that liberal ideology holds the equalness of all people as a fundamental truth rather than a result of inquiry. That seems to be what is happening in reputable scientific jounals. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

narrator 4y ago
Let's say a researcher wanted to do a study to find out what gene polymorphisms are associated with better performance on standardized tests. Nope, can't do it. Might reveal that some people, or God forbid kinds of people, are genetically less intelligent than others and that is a forbidden conclusion. Heck, this post might even get flagged because it raises the possibility that this proposition could be true. Meanwhile, in other countries, they are offering gene modifications to insert these genes discovered by researchers doing this forbidden research into consenting adults. Anyone in the west who would want to confirm their research would get locked out of the database.