3 ms·
While true, I'm not sure this is much better. There are many genetic traits which are correlated with increased criminality, risk taking, obesity, heart disease
by Gareth321 25d ago
While true, I'm not sure this is much better. There are many genetic traits which are correlated with increased criminality, risk taking, obesity, heart disease, unemployment, etc. IQ in particular is the most well correlated metric we have for criminality, for example. This would imply that some people are just born with fewer freedoms. That's probably a good thing for society in aggregate, but something about this doesn't feel quite right.
- datadrivenangel 25d agoGattica disagrees.
- kennywinker 25d agoHowever strongly genetic marks predict criminality, zip code does it better. Any solution to crime that starts with eliminating types of people instead of poverty is just a form of fascism.
- deleted 23d ago[deleted]
- tptacek 24d agoThere are genetic traits correlated with virtually anything, including things that can't possibly be mechanistically linked to biology, so those correlations are saying less than you'd hope they would.
- throwthrowuknow 23d agoI didn’t specify genetics