Yes. Should a journalist be fired for saying jewish, black, or hispanic people are evil?
RECIPROCITY IN EVERYTHING.
https://www.quora.com/Should-journalist-Lara-Witt-be-fired-for-saying-white-people-are-evil
Yes. Should a journalist be fired for saying jewish, black, or hispanic people are evil?
RECIPROCITY IN EVERYTHING.
https://www.quora.com/Should-journalist-Lara-Witt-be-fired-for-saying-white-people-are-evil
Legally and morally are two different things.
The law is not ethical, or moral, or good, or true. It just is.
It’s questionable whether Bezos is acting morally.
As far as I know, at least within reason, he is acting legally.
Asking whether something is legal or not is nonsensical.
Was it productive, fully informed (transparent), warrantied, voluntary, and without imposition of costs against the investments of others? If yes then it is ethical, moral, and hopefully legal.
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-the-world’s-first-trillionaire-will-have-earned-the-money-legally
China is a very poor country. But it has more population than the Western world, more population than the African world, about the same or more than the Indian world, less population than the Muslim world, and perhaps most importantly, greater racial and cultural homogeneity than any other people other than the japanese – and that’s coupled with a ‘self righteous’ military, a history and culture of monolithic bureaucracy; no history whatsoever of what we call ‘rule of law’ or individual rights (sovereignty), or peerage; And a severe ‘chip on its shoulder’ for having been backward, and the loser of modern wars, and the poor choice of communism, which is contrary to the Chinese cultural ‘mythos’ that china is the ‘Center of the World’.
So while it is easy for china to ‘catch up from behind’ using authoritarianism, it is very hard to produce a constantly competitive, and constantly evolving economy given ‘chinese characteristics’. (WHich I won’t go into)
Can china use her central bureaucracy to concentrate capital in industry and military to achieve by threat, bribery, and obstruction, that which the west achieved by technical innovation, economic expansion, and ‘dragging the world out of ignorance, superstition, tyranny, poverty, and disease?’
Of course she can.
And there are more nations in this world that do not want meritocracy than do so. And china, russia, and islam, seem poised to conflict with the west, india, and christian africa.
I think the period of the west’s ideals has ended and the future belongs to non-market nations.
Democracy, Liberty, Innovation, Individualism, are western if not scandinavian (english) preoccupations.
The north sea people are, quite honestly, sons of cattle raiders, pirates, vikings, and warriors. It’s a materialistic heritage.
Most people had no such luxury.
https://www.quora.com/Is-China-stronger-than-America
Skin color and genetic composition are two different things.
The principle difference between the different races is the degree of neoteny achieved before and during the agrarian phase. It was impossible for people in warm climates to achieve circumpolar degrees of neoteny because neotenic development (extending childhood by limiting maturity) exposes the child to environmental hazards longer. So people with darker skin from warmer climates evolved to mature early and deeply in order to survive (particularly africa, which is very hostile due to pests.)
While animals have white skin, hair and fur are insulators. So to run as we humans do (we are the most efficient runners on earth), required we lose our hair, lose some of our muscle mass, and develop dark skin to compensate. Some groups then redeveloped white skin and it was not that long ago. It’s just ‘preferable’ because it signals neoteny “youth”.
So peoples with darker skin have achieved less neotonic selection. This is really the only difference between races and subraces, other than we all seem to vary in verbal intelligence vs spatial intelligence.
Ergo, you can determine tribal origins from facial features and body structure, and skin color does not seem to affect it.
I have worked on this problem for quite some time. And it’s … politically incorrect. So like many things, research has been suppressed since the second world war. But that said research does exist, and many other nations are not as ‘challenged’ with the truth as westerners are.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-be-black-then-transform-into-a-white-person
I ANSWER UNPLEASANT QUESTIONS AS TRUTHFULLY AS POSSIBLE
You know, I answer controversial topics, because that’s my job, and I know the data. And so I’ve ended up being one of the people that counter-signals anti-everything.
So I sort of get angry now when I get asked to respond to questions like this, only to have my posts redacted by someone *helping to preserve ignorance and deceit* under the guise of protecting people from uncomfortable truths. In other words, protecting their market for falsehoods from correction. Because that is what all of us do. We all seek information that confirms our priors, because our priors reflect our age, gender, class, ethnic, racial evolutionary strategies. And it would be against evolution’s interests for us to seek the truth, rather than whatever is in the interest of our reproductive strategy
The main stream media tells stories that advance the postmodern (anti-aristocratic, meaning paternal, meaning anti-western, anti-meritocratic ) narrative. There are very good economic reasons for doing so. There are very good secular religious reasons for doing so.
There are a lot of self defense shootings, perhaps daily, but they media doesn’t report it so that they aren’t seen as advancing the use of violence.
Black on white hate crime is rarely reported. White on black hate crime is over-reported. The media tries to cast mass killers as conservative, yet as far as I know, all mass killers are liberals. The media tried to report that conservatives were less intelligent. This turns out to be an artifact of the population sizes, not reality. (There are a lot of self-identifying conservatives, and few self identifying liberals). For example, republicans are smarter than democrats, but liberals are smarter than conservatives. Libertarians are the smartest of all. THey’re just statistically insignificant.
I would go into the reasons for this but that’s for another time.
Research “False Consensus Bias”, and all the other social cognitive biases.
But for some of us, out of statistical consequence, uncomfortable truths are precisely what advance our reproductive strategies. And so we soldier onward, as does everyone else.
And those of us who understand science, economics, and history are forever the victims of the many who understand none of them.
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-know-of-any-shootings-committed-by-white-people-that-are-not-reported-in-the-main-stream-media
There is no validity to the crisis. There is a great deal of validity to the EROI.
The problem is population.
There are too many at the bottom.
https://www.quora.com/How-valid-is-the-claim-that-were-on-the-verge-of-economic-collapse-due-to-the-vanishing-supply-of-cheap-conventional-oil-and-the-declining-energy-return-on-investment-EROI
It is possible to transfer traits (we can do that) but genomes contain a great deal of error checking and redundancy, and proteins work together in a complex ‘cellular ecosystem’ where small variations can produce catastrophic consequences to the organism’s ability to survive. So to say we can cumulatively transfer traits between our species is probably true. But all attempts to cause inter-breeding have failed. (Yes, scientists, particularly one russian, have tried it.)
So trait-addition and modification is probably not only possible but may be beneficial (so that we can live in harmony with large mammals in particular by pedomorphic/neotenic evolution as we have done with dogs.) But inbreeding is too ‘primitive’ a method because in all but outlying cases, the genomes would consider the ovum ‘defective’.
https://www.quora.com/Is-human-animal-hybrid-a-possibility-by-science
Invent a germ that rapidly kills rice and wheat. (Yes, there are people who think of how to do these things.) Or the equivalent that ‘eats’ hydrocarbons (petroleum products). In both cases, all governments and all civilizations would fall rather rapidly, and population would return to agrarian levels. In particular, a germ that would kill rice would kill billions cheaply and quickly, which would drive governments to revolt and war.
https://www.quora.com/If-someone-wanted-to-what-would-they-need-to-realistically-do-in-order-to-topple-all-current-world-governments
Dishonest (Postmodern) question in my opinion.
The USA prosecutes many more minor offenses than does any other nation which accounts for our ability to leave our doors unlocked, and not fence in our yards, or put bars or grids over our windows as does the rest of the world. The only places where we must act like the rest of the world is in our immigrant cities.
We have far less ‘petty crime’ than other nations (except japan for example). We have far less ‘observable’ corruption. We have a huge drug issue and many people in the system for it.
And we have (I will get the usual Quora punishment for truth speaking for saying this) but heterogeneous societies degrade trust, degrade norms, and increase crime. For the simple reason that homogenous and wealthy peoples are marginally indifferent and redistributive and heterogeneous and poor peoples are marginally different and resist redistribution (in either direction).
If you compare ethnic groups they have the same crime rates in america as they do in their home countries. The reasons for this are finally fairly well understood (see Emmanuel Todd’s work on europe for example, or the recent books on the wealth of nations being dependent upon the size of the underclasses, or even Trust by Fukuyama. )
These are just painful truths that are counter to both secular and supernatural religions, as well as marxist postmodernist pseudoscience of the 19th and 20th centuries.
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-country-in-the-industrialized-world-that-has-more-students-per-capita-whose-parents-have-been-in-the-criminal-justice-system-as-does-the-US
It’s the other way around. Current pronunciation in the UK was ‘affected’ during the 1800’s, just like french was ‘feminized’ during the 16–1700′s. While the USA and Canada preserved the germanic. If you listen to reconstructed Edwardian or Elizabethan, it sounds like a mixture of Scots and American pronunciation.
American whites were 50% german. We forget that while we share english language and english institutions, beginning in 1830 and expanding thru the Disraeli years, England ‘ceased’ being an extension of germanic-nordic civilization and evolved into a bridge between them and the French.
Americans are still more ‘German’. And pronunciation isn’t the only thing. We still work hard…. 😉
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-and-Canadians-have-a-voiced-pronunciation-of-t