re: #66 researchok

I asked for your opinion and I am grateful for it.

However, I must challenge some of your assertions. The origin of the mindset, nature or nurture is immaterial to the points. The origin of the mindsets does not affect this discussion of their implications.

As to the very anti-hierarchy way you phrased your response about some people being lesser, I have a question that gets in the way of my consistent data evaluation:

Is it not always, obviously empirically the case that some people have lesser abilities than others? I don’t mean in a moral sense per se. I certainly don’t mean anything to do with race or genetics per se.

I mean just empirically, not all of us can be an olympic swimmer or a mathematician or a concert violinist, no matter how hard we might try.

By the same token, clearly some folks are better at analytical thinking than others for whatever reason. In skills that require analytical thinking, are not those who can’t add, or reason their way out of a paper bag at an obvious disadvantage?

Do you want a moron as your heart surgeon for example?

So what is wrong with identifying a mindset that is counter to rational thinking skills? Why is it a bad thing to admit it exists? It clearly does.