epistemic humility doesn't need to result in ahistorical "all science is racist, capitalist, white supremacy, whit a purposeful nefarious agenda" that's what people have a problem with. you're arguing with ghost in your head, i'm not saad or peterson.
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Replying to @Gil_Ant @HPluckrose
That’s all I was arguing for. Epistemic humility sums it nicely.
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That’s what burns my bacon. Critique such as Dewey’s or Rorty’s gets lumped in with the latest discoveries in campus Pyrrhonism.
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OTOH we’re informed that market dominance and rape are coded in our genes. (This touted as “objectively true”)
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"Supported by latest research," is better than "objectively true." Saying rape is genetically encoded is not saying it's OK.
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That it’s supposedly encoded is the worst of pseudoscientific “just-so” stories.
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Rape is a concept we have defined. At some point we developed the brains and moral reasoning to say that it was bad. But of course, much of what underlies it - sexual desire & dominance - are evolved.
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Brains and moral reasoning are every bit as evolved as other complex behaviors
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That is to say that rape has no better claim to being essentially human than moral reasoning does.
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Again, yes.
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Everything we do is human and every ability we have evolved.
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I get a bit tired of rearguing against the naturalistic fallacy. It feels like eternal recurrence. ;)
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"Rape is genetic, so it's natural, so it's ok." Nobody believes this.
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