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Our society as a whole benefits from diversity, in the same way that humanity benefits from a wide gene pool. If you bias heavily towards similarity, you end up
by zcrar70 18y ago
Our society as a whole benefits from diversity, in the same way that humanity benefits from a wide gene pool. If you bias heavily towards similarity, you end up with a highly specialised but weak society.
Like etal, I won't speculate on what alternatives might be, but not having them is our collective loss.
- anamax 18y ago> Our society as a whole benefits from diversity I'm pretty sure that society doesn't benefit from all possible diversity. (And then there's the small details that humanities isn't all that diverse and we can get its diversity from a much smaller population.) I note that "mother nature" weeds out most mutations.
- zcrar70 18y ago> I note that "mother nature" weeds out most mutations 'Mother nature' actually creates mutations; without them, we wouldn't be able to adapt to nature's changing circumstance. > And then there's the small details that humanities isn't all that diverse I didn't say that humanities was diverse; I said that a diverse society needed to encompass the humanities as well, because that diversity is necessary for it to thrive. I'd argue that Socrates and Plato (philosophy) are as well remembered as Pythagoras (maths). Surely that says something about the importance of the humanities?
- anamax 18y agoI'm not saying that all diversity is bad. I'm saying that some/most diversity is useless at best. Note that I'm also not saying that the humanities are useless or bad. I'm saying that it's quite possible that we could get all the benefits from the humanities and spend far less on them. No, that doesn't imply that we shouldn't let people study the humanities and end up driving cabs.