OK, I need to have a thread about centrism coz I am being accused of it again in terms of doing 'both sides' stuff. I've said before why I don't think centrism (in the sense of taking a middle position on everything rather than finding your views somewhere near the middle) works.
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But you don't know what that evidence is. And to what it might relate to. You cannot start from a position of waiting for the evidence and at the same time denying any possible relationship that evidence might suggest to people with shared characteristics. It's disingenuous.
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I don't know what you mean. Obviously, we can't evaluate on evidence if we don't know what it is. But I am talking about not discriminating on the grounds of race, gender or sexuality but on evidence of unsuitability.
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Eg, in the most extreme difference we know of, it was found that no woman has ever passed strength & stamina requirements to be a marine. But not rejected on the grounds of being women but on not having the strength or stamina. If one day, a woman does, she should be accepted
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Yes the crucial aspect is to proceed in such a way as to give yourself the best possible chance of being able to detect new information when it turns up.
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How can you detect new information if you have already determined what that information is and means beforehand. E.G. racist/ sexist? It's empirical naivety.
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Not only is it disingenuous, it is dangerous and could be used by politically inclined people for whatever reasons they might deem 'right'.
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