Monday, November 12, 2007
Racism, IQ, evolution, equality and some bloggers
The question of race, intelligence, evolution and equality
This blog came to me this morning; it deals with the idea of race, IQ and development suggested by some other blogger. This is strange how simple some people are. The idea is completely different. Humans are only one biological species, like dogs, fish, sharks, bats, rabbits, etc. The fact that we differ depends mostly upon environment and the ability of all organisms to get adapted to its environments.
We are equal in the sense that we are not hens or dogs or frogs. This makes us one group. But because this group is rather large, at resent time some 6 billion “units” it cries for next differentiation into smaller groups because no human brain can remember all 6 billion people, it is too much information. So we differentiate. The next reason for making this differentiation is that we do not lie to by too low in the human hierarchy. In order not to be the last one we need somebody to be under us and we always find someone who is under us, and we meet plenty of such people and we group them by some easily noticeable features. It used to be color of skin, color of hair, language, size of body or body shape, or shapes of parts of body like shape of eyes, ears, cheeks, nose, and just such features we can easily see and compare.
I prefer to give example with dogs. Dogs are one group and all dogs are equal in the sense that they are dogs and not elephants or snakes. But inside of the group of dogs suddenly this equality ceases to exist, just consider how equal is the biggest dog in the world with the smallest dog in the world. If the big one would be a female and the small one a male they even cannot copulate. So there are differences, they have always been and they will always be.
We behave like lions, we kill other animals to have food, and we kill each other for mating or for hierarchy, regardless whether inside one group or between groups.. We can always make smaller and smaller group having the same traits different from the other groups. It means we are different, and we even differ in IQ. If it were not so, everybody would have to be awarded Nobel price, everybody would have to be chess world champion.
There is another example showing that we differ. It is sports. If we were supposedly totally equal everybody would have to be able to run 100 meters sprint in the world best time, everybody would have to be the best basketball player in the world and so on. This all is apparently not the case. So we really differ. But, now it comes, we are all humans and that is where we are totally equal.
So we have two sides of the problem. We are equal at the level of being humans but inside of this human group we are not equal. What people do not understand is that the fact that we differ does not constitute any fact that might discriminate others who are not the same as we are.
We should respect each other just only because of being humans and regardless the differences.
People do not want to understand this because of a deep seeded notion of hierarchy. I have written plenty of short papers explaining what hierarchy is and how it works. The above mention blogger just does not understand and cannot grasp the sentence I wrote here in bold italics. The blogger thinks only in categories of hierarchy, who is under me and who is above me. He forgets that the one who is higher should and must use his abilities to help the others who are below him in the hierarchy and so help the total human race develop faster. Actually, he is rather primitive as so many of us.
This blog came to me this morning; it deals with the idea of race, IQ and development suggested by some other blogger. This is strange how simple some people are. The idea is completely different. Humans are only one biological species, like dogs, fish, sharks, bats, rabbits, etc. The fact that we differ depends mostly upon environment and the ability of all organisms to get adapted to its environments.
We are equal in the sense that we are not hens or dogs or frogs. This makes us one group. But because this group is rather large, at resent time some 6 billion “units” it cries for next differentiation into smaller groups because no human brain can remember all 6 billion people, it is too much information. So we differentiate. The next reason for making this differentiation is that we do not lie to by too low in the human hierarchy. In order not to be the last one we need somebody to be under us and we always find someone who is under us, and we meet plenty of such people and we group them by some easily noticeable features. It used to be color of skin, color of hair, language, size of body or body shape, or shapes of parts of body like shape of eyes, ears, cheeks, nose, and just such features we can easily see and compare.
I prefer to give example with dogs. Dogs are one group and all dogs are equal in the sense that they are dogs and not elephants or snakes. But inside of the group of dogs suddenly this equality ceases to exist, just consider how equal is the biggest dog in the world with the smallest dog in the world. If the big one would be a female and the small one a male they even cannot copulate. So there are differences, they have always been and they will always be.
We behave like lions, we kill other animals to have food, and we kill each other for mating or for hierarchy, regardless whether inside one group or between groups.. We can always make smaller and smaller group having the same traits different from the other groups. It means we are different, and we even differ in IQ. If it were not so, everybody would have to be awarded Nobel price, everybody would have to be chess world champion.
There is another example showing that we differ. It is sports. If we were supposedly totally equal everybody would have to be able to run 100 meters sprint in the world best time, everybody would have to be the best basketball player in the world and so on. This all is apparently not the case. So we really differ. But, now it comes, we are all humans and that is where we are totally equal.
So we have two sides of the problem. We are equal at the level of being humans but inside of this human group we are not equal. What people do not understand is that the fact that we differ does not constitute any fact that might discriminate others who are not the same as we are.
We should respect each other just only because of being humans and regardless the differences.
People do not want to understand this because of a deep seeded notion of hierarchy. I have written plenty of short papers explaining what hierarchy is and how it works. The above mention blogger just does not understand and cannot grasp the sentence I wrote here in bold italics. The blogger thinks only in categories of hierarchy, who is under me and who is above me. He forgets that the one who is higher should and must use his abilities to help the others who are below him in the hierarchy and so help the total human race develop faster. Actually, he is rather primitive as so many of us.
# posted by Dalibor @ 3:40 AM 
