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What would be the point? It's not an issue we're equipped to address, so what good would come from dwelling on the topic, even discounting the risk of muddying

• kylebrown 14y ago
  Genetics is a red herring, but so are most discussions about "social" causes. Social is just the new genetic. More often than not, the discussion goes down the same slippery slope of blame-the-victim reasoning to rationalize the status quo.
• planetguy 14y ago
  It makes all the difference in the world. If people are poor because that's the best they're genetically equipped to do, then there's not much we can do about it. Look at pigeons. They eat out of garbage cans. They die within a few years. They get run over by cars rather a lot. But we don't really worry about this, because they're just fucking pigeons.
  • pradocchia 14y ago
    if that's the best they're genetically equipped to do Gosh I'd be ashamed to make such an argument. It's a) incredibly loaded, and b) carries incredible risk in the event that someone takes it to heart and actually starts acting along those lines. Though perhaps you are just not used to your words having any force, and have yet to learn circumspection. And I sense a certain hubris: "I am not a pigeon." Well, so you think.