re: #168 Nyet

You have written about everything (supporting, damage, etc. - the things I acknowledged right from the start) but my thesis that Stalin wasn’t better than Hitler.

Well, Stalin was better than Hitler. But that sentence alone is kinda pointless. I’d rather have to deal with Stalin than deal with Hitler.

But again, it’s like saying that being shot is being better than having pancreatic cancer. It’s a true thing, and it’s why some people with pancreatic cancer shoot themselves, but it’s not, like, the only thing you’d say on the subject.

re: #170 Nyet

Seems like we have a “race realist” here.

I don’t think so at all, I just think he’s saying that races are groups that have probablistic groupings of certain genetic traits, which is an arbitrary division that is used in epidemiology and other sorts of scientific inquiry, but it’s not an objective criteria, just a useful taxonomy.

In epidemiology, for example, you define a ‘race’ by a group of genetic predispositions to various diseases.