Politics and Religion

"On What Basis Is Racism Immoral or Wrong?"
willywonka4u 22 Reviews 63 reads
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"Racist" is the constant epithet of the woketard left. Don't fall for it. The simple fact of the matter is that all people are racist. Everyone who has ever lived or will ever live is racist. It's a natural part of the human condition.  

 
From the wiki article, linked below:

 
"Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.[1] Kin selection can lead to the evolution of altruistic behaviour. It is related to inclusive fitness, which combines the number of offspring produced with the number an individual can ensure the production of by supporting others"

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection

 
Let's put that in a way anyone can understand. You care about your own family more then you care about other people's families. This is why racism exists. People sacrifice for their own family while they would not sacrifice for others.

 
Kin Selection evolved because:
1) resources aren't limitless  
2) society depends upon altruism and  
3) outsiders can take advantage of that.  

 
And since human beings could not have survived without Kin Selection, and racism is the natural byproduct of Kin Selection, then on what basis is racism immoral? If we would have gone extinct without it, then it cannot be immoral. If someone tells you it's bad to be racist, then they're telling you it's wrong for you to love your own family.

willywonka4u 22 Reviews 12 reads
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And not just Trump, but everyone in the Republican party. Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, JD Vance, even Candance Owens. He told me that he deeply loves them all and would do anything for them. I did not see that coming.

inicky46 61 Reviews 11 reads
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RespectfulRobert 11 reads
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That is only asked by hard core racists. Know any by chance? smh

cks175 44 Reviews 11 reads
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That’s an interesting point, but it doesn’t address Willy’s premise.

While it may be true that kin selection is a part of evolution, it doesn’t make its byproduct, racism, moral or acceptable. If one believes in God or a higher power that’s imbued the human race with free will, then we can call to our altruism, another byproduct of kin selection, to work against racism. From Willy’s link:
Whether or not Hamilton's rule always applies, relatedness is often important for human altruism, in that humans are inclined to behave more altruistically toward kin than toward unrelated individuals

willywonka4u 22 Reviews 8 reads
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You don't think philosophers have ever struggled with this question? So let's take this one step further.  

 
Sue decides to go on a date. Does she pick a date at random? Just any ole guy would do? Or does she become highly selective in who she picks? Suppose the date goes well, she falls in love and gets married. Is she not making a vow to discriminate against all other men on earth for the rest of her life?  

 
If we're going to make the claim that racism is morally wrong, then logically, Sue here would be doing something far worse. She's declaring her intention to discriminate against all men of all races for the rest of her life, except for one person. Is that immoral?

 
Alternatively, we can make this even simpler. If racism is indeed immoral, then logically, it would be just as immoral for Robert not to hand over all his money and property to randos on the internet. Since racism is indeed the natural byproduct of kin selection, and since resource scarcity exists, and society depends upon altruism which creates a free rider vulnerability, then logically we must conclude that the opposite of the grave evil of racism would be to maximize altruism. Therefore, Robert should give away all his money and property to complete strangers, completely ignoring the harm it would cause himself and his family.  

 
Now let's suppose everyone followed that same exercise that Robert is engaged in. What would we call that? We'd call it communism. And under a communist system people die, they starve to death and are reduced to extreme poverty. You cannot eliminate racism and still have personal property. You can either have one or the either.  

 
Altruism can only arise if it is beneficial to one's own reproductive fitness. John can either spread his genes by having lots of babies, but Bob could also spread his genes by sacrificing his life to save his sister's life allowing her to live on and have her own babies, genes that Bob share in common with his sister.  

 
If you detach Kin Selection from altruism, then what happens is that by instinct human being switch from one survival mode to another. In a homogenous society, where everyone shares a common ancestry and lineage, then you can get everyone sacrificing for one another. But if a society switches to a multicultural one, then eventually this sacrifice stops happening and the rates of altruism plummets. Eventually, everyone switches from a high trust society to a low trust society. They go into survival mode.  

 
In a low trust society, you might see things like businessmen destroying the companies they work for so it doesn't survive so they can strip as much wealth from it as possible for themselves. You might see politicians engaged in rampant corruption, where institutions harm the population so they can enrich themselves so their own families can be wealthy, not caring that it impoverishes society as a whole. You might see cops refusing to uphold the law and instead take bribes from criminals to help them commit crime instead.  

 
You cannot just wish altruism into existence. Either you foster the conditions by which it can flourish, or you can destroy it. Racism is an evolutionary cheat code to maintain a society. Get rid of racism, and the bonds that hold that society together also crumbles. It becomes everyone fending for themselves. And when everyone fends for themselves, the overall survival rate plummets. Evolutionary fitness declines.  

 
Any moral code that naturally produces death is not a moral code at all. You cannot claim something is immoral if it directly caused people to die. Racism therefore can not be immoral.

willywonka4u 22 Reviews 4 reads
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...that someone would say that hating someone for what their beliefs are is perfectly justified. Wouldn't that be far worse than hating someone for their ethnicity? Why would it be justified to hate someone who you share a common ethnicity, language, nation, and customs, but not justified to hate someone who doesn't have any of those things in common with you? Isn't that weird?  

 
Should we accept that it's normal for one person from Topeka to hate another person from Topeka just because they disagree on some minor political issues, but it's completely immoral and wrong for that some person to hate some rando person in Bangladesh? Does that make any sense?

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