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Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com 3 years agoYeah, I get that. I was just saying that in light of our pending extinction, tech can be used to get them breeding for us in some cases. So what if 3 parents are involved. That's no more freaky than what is happening in society now.
Too bad Lincoln didn't have the time to do what he proposed to do next. Emancipation was only the first step. The next was to undo things to the extent possible and send them to another part of Africa from where they were taken.
And a lot of things here are not even racial per se. What we got were those who had a higher capacity for physical strength (at any cost). So that would include the capacity for violence, sex crimes, and drug addiction. That extra "power" has costs. You see similarities in other groups, but not to the same extent. I mean, Mexicans tend to work harder too. And they tend to have mostly 2 categories of the problems I mentioned. There are 2 papers written by former public defenders that describe what they've faced and why they moved to other areas of law. With the Mexicans, violence isn't as big of a problem as with African-Americans, but sex crimes and substance abuse issues like drunk driving are. The one lawyer said that he only represented 2 Asians, and one was half-Black.
One of the defense attorneys I mentioned above said that many of his clients and families didn't even understand God's role. He overheard prayers wishing that witnesses would die on the way to court and things such as that. So you should be able to do what you want and be protected from consequences and for those who hold you responsible for what you did to be harmed? That sounds more like the other main deity, not the one that a reasonable person would believe to be God. That shows you right there that "spiritual" is not always Christian or good. I'd say New Agers for instance tend to be closer to deists, and the issue with that approach is not knowing what god(s) you are dealing with. So belief alone is not enough, and Jesus said that too (even the devils believe).
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
Typical of third world religion. Also: this debate animates the first chapter of The Republic.
I'm just going to assume that this was a typo.
Or the constant low-grade crime.
Sort of like with people in the mid-90s on the IQ scale.
Smart enough to avoid low-90s IQ crime like robbing convenience stores with rusty guns... but not smart enough to realize the pointless risk.
Very similar to lower Asians. Vietnamese and your average indio look very similar.
Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
No typo. The ones out here do work harder than others and in less desirable conditions. I mean the ones I see here used to do everything hard. Work hard, drink hard, etc. But I was speaking of how the genes turn out differently.
And I see the ability to take pointless risks safely as a mark of intelligence, and that's not the same thing as not having the ability to avoid such risks. And it is possible to be "intelligent" and foolish, like one of the most well-known con artists who kept throwing the Hope Diamond toward the ocean and grabbing it back (and ultimately failing). I wouldn't do that. But if I were to, it would be once only. I wouldn't keep increasing the risk.
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
Dunno where "here" is, but around here, they are massively inefficient workers although they put in long hours and achieve horrible quality.
I think they're more expensive than White labor, on the 20-year scale and beyond.
In fact, this happens a lot, especially in the middle right of the Bell Curve.