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Originally Posted by America
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IQ differential (and virtually every other statistical measure you might think to take -- which in virtually all cases correlate in scale of differential to the IQ variance) by visibly-differentiable group, unfortunately, plants a big fat eugenic heuristic right on top of society. Most people are able to reconcile this with denial. Unfortunately, being aware that that is mistaken, I find myself in the uncomfortable situation of can't figure out how to reconcile it with the standing order without resorting to a sort of deeply painful libertarian nihilism or highly-optimistic transhuman futurism, although I have been trying hard for many years. Nobody has ever engaged me seriously on this topic other than some distant academics who failed to win -- and I'm not sure they can.
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"eugenics" is the future, but it doesn't involve putting visually differentiable groups in ovens. it involves the Chinese elevating their national IQ average by one standard deviation via gene editing while the West deliberates on the ethics of selecting for intelligence.
in all seriousness though, what exactly is your dilemma? i think you have laid out your presuppositions pretty clearly, but I don't see your conclusion. Is that what bothers you? What is the standing order??