I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris

[paulpablo]

Hammy,

Nobody's perfect.  Even you and I.

A bit like it's not racist for me to say that the fact a lot of the fastest runners and best boxers are African American isn't a coincidence because races do have physical genetic differences and competences even though mentally intelligence levels between races is the same.

My bold.

I'm going to brave the shitstorm and get ready to be called a nazi bigot fuckface a few more times.

I don't see how this could be true.

If you acknowledge intelligence levels are measurable, I'm assuming this is the case since the claim is that they have been measured to be all the same.

And you acknowledge that race exists, then surely the odds of anything quantifiable being measured to be exactly the same among the races is going to be very low.

I understand when people are skeptical of IQ scores, and people saying that culture is why certain groups of Jews and Asians perform so well academically.

I've never seen anyone say that it's conclusive, everyone is equal when it comes to intelligence.

To me it would seem that it would be the same odds as measuring the average heights of groups of people and everyone scoring the exact same height down to decimal points.

It would make sense from a biological standpoint for races to be unequal when measuring any sort of quantifiable difference.

So if the brain is a body part like any other, and the traits of this body part are determined by genetic inheritance then why would it be any different from other body traits like running speed, height, body fat percentage and so on?

 I understand that it's easier to measure how fat someone is or how fast someone runs, but surely it's illogical to think that there are statistical differences among races in every part of the body except the brain, every race on the planet is exactly equal when it comes to intellectual performance.