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This is a bad defense because you're using "genetically determined", which is either meaningless or not true. Height is not genetically determined unless you a
by astrange 3y ago
This is a bad defense because you're using "genetically determined", which is either meaningless or not true.
Height is not genetically determined unless you add "in an environment where nothing else that affects it happens". Like, say, someone cutting off your legs.
And the same goes for every other trait.
- zlg_codes 3y agoThe only other thing to affect height is nutrition. Assuming the same nutrition, certain ethnicities will trend taller than others. Denying that is just straight stupidity because you can observe the trend just by going outside.
- astrange 3y ago> The only other thing to affect height is nutrition. And puberty blockers, pituitary gland diseases, and lack of sleep. …and cutting your legs off. > Assuming the same nutrition, certain ethnicities will trend taller than others. See, one thing about statistics is they're not necessarily valid for individuals, because eg not all statistical distributions have any values at their averages.
- jamilton 3y agoSaying something is genetically determined is not necessarily the same as saying it's completely genetically determined. And it's not meaningless, because there are things that aren't genetically determined at all, or at least are only genetically determined to such a small amount that they wouldn't be described as being genetically determined.
- astrange 3y agoNothing is "not genetically determined at all" because part of the causation of every human trait involves you being a human. But you should be clearer than that about what your theory of causation is.