The problem with the IQ discourse / recent-uptick-in-mainstream-discussion-of-HBD: People don't understand statistics intuitively. And I mean that in a very specific way: People *will* extrapolate from aggregate population differences to prejudice against individuals.
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to meaning that people are actually all (or have the potential to be) exactly the same in proclivity, capability, etc
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this is made explicit in westphalianism, though with states instead of people
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that it is undeniable that some states are big and powerful and others are small and weak, but they have the same moral worth
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and so every state's internal affairs are sacrosanct having nothing to do with their material capability to defend them
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It never has. It's always, always been a standby for deliberate equivocation.
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