(August 22, 2013 at 7:37 pm)David Sims Wrote: Oh, is that a Hitler reference? I should invoke Godwin's rule, then, I suppose. But I won't. Yes, the idea is to create a white living space. And, no, that's not a bad idea (even if Hitler had it too). It's a good idea.
Why do you feel that this is a good idea? If we allow for the belief that different races have differing capacities for aggression and intellect, you admit that these are not absolute in each individual. A nation that wanted to maintain a higher standard of behavior and learning would want to encourage citizenship based on the ability to excel in those areas, and excluding many sources of that in order to "play the percentages" seems shortsighted.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
