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Atheism Leads to Inequality
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RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality
(January 22, 2014 at 4:50 pm)EgoRaptor Wrote:
(January 22, 2014 at 4:47 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Sure, I was just happening by and noticed the lure. 'Equal under the law' means to be treated by the government as if they have the same rights. They absolutely should be treated as equal under the law.
Why? Should Eisenstein not be given more rights that Perry? In my opinion those with a less than average IQ should be disenfranchised.

There are certain freedoms that all men should enjoy (such as freedom of speech), but other freedom should not be given to lesser men.

The esteemed 19th century scientist Sir Francis Galton was a brilliant man, but much like you, he felt that enfranchising the common man and the vulgar led to worse decisions than would be arrived at if the decision making process was left to those most capable, intellectually. In an attempt to prove his thesis, he conducted an experiment. At a fair one year, he put a large pig on display and asked people to guess its weight. The results of this guessing contest were that, yes, there were plenty of wild guesses sprinkled among the more reasonable guesses, but on average, the high guesses canceled the low, and vice versa, such that the average of all guesses was quite close to the actual weight of the pig. The assumed moral is that, while people who are not of homogenously high intellect and capability may produce spurious solutions, the net effect of all the common and the vulgar working together produces the desired effect. If you were to artificially limit this process by excluding some, and giving greater rights to others, all you would be doing is undermining the robustness of this statistical effect and in effect causing the production of worse decisions rather than better.


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Atheism Leads to Inequality - by InevitableCheese - January 20, 2014 at 2:52 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Simon Moon - January 20, 2014 at 3:21 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 3:50 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Minimalist - January 20, 2014 at 4:42 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Faith No More - January 20, 2014 at 5:26 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Angrboda - January 20, 2014 at 6:43 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Boris Karloff - January 20, 2014 at 6:52 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Mudhammam - January 20, 2014 at 7:59 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by houseofcantor - January 20, 2014 at 8:05 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by InevitableCheese - January 20, 2014 at 8:31 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Mudhammam - January 20, 2014 at 8:37 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by InevitableCheese - January 20, 2014 at 8:39 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Mudhammam - January 20, 2014 at 8:43 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 8:46 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Mudhammam - January 20, 2014 at 8:47 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 8:41 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by EgoRaptor - January 20, 2014 at 9:21 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Ryantology - January 22, 2014 at 5:12 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by EgoRaptor - January 22, 2014 at 5:37 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by EgoRaptor - January 22, 2014 at 4:37 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Mister Agenda - January 22, 2014 at 4:47 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by EgoRaptor - January 22, 2014 at 4:50 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Angrboda - January 22, 2014 at 5:56 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Mister Agenda - January 22, 2014 at 4:58 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by EgoRaptor - January 22, 2014 at 5:02 pm
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Simsim - January 23, 2014 at 3:31 am
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by là bạn điên - January 23, 2014 at 7:38 am
RE: Atheism Leads to Inequality - by Ryantology - January 23, 2014 at 8:58 am

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