[quote=@Vilageidiotx] Damn dude, like, did your school have [i]any[/i] books printed after 1900? All of this pseudo-darwinism was thrown out before your Great-Grandma was born. Like, the 300 years or so that western society developed liberalism isn't enough time for us to somehow become genetically liberal. This isn't genetics, its cultural patterns, and those are too fluid to be explained by genetics. [/quote] I don't remember behavioral genetics being discredited. If anything, it's gained momentum. Exponential growth in technological innovation tends to accelerate the frequency of groundbreaking discoveries, not retard it. [quote]This isn't genetics, its cultural patterns, and those are too fluid to be explained by genetics.[/quote]] The cultural makeup of various human civilizations and societies are, in many ways, diametric manifestations of their native population's collective psychological profile. The overt cultural and administrative texture of Japan, for example, differs from that of Jordan's because the Yamato people are measurably dissimilar to Arabs when it comes to a distinctive assortment of psychological attributes. Both are subsets of the encompassing human species, but they've evolved in different geographical locales over the course of several thousand years. Culture influences genetics; genetics influences culture. [quote=@Keyguyperson] So I could kill off everyone who opposes homosexuality, which would eventually wipe out the "homos ewwwwwww" gene, and that would be morally acceptable because I'm a more fit creature, which I've demonstrated by murdering millions? What if I killed everyone but five hundred people whom I like for arbitrary reasons. Are those five hundred superior beings to everyone who died because they're still alive? What if they're all obese, drooling idiots? Are they still superior? [/quote] You know, you could've just skipped to the point and evoked Godwin's Law by comparing me to Hitler.