so in the case of evolution it's not the fact of transmission of heritable traits through the genome that's political. it's the idea of a state eugenics policy affecting reproductive freedom that is. that's not a policy that ANYONE (in power) is promoting though, afaik.
first story: head injury _causes_ disorder in mental faculty for impulse control and emotional regulation, results in more violent crimes of passion. policy preference: more lenient sentencing, more after care on emotional regulation for head injury patients.
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second story: people who are innately impulsive and poor at regulating anger and fear are elevated risk to engage in actions that could result in head trauma (including violent crime). policy: longer incarceration for violent offenders with head injuries
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Good long thread here. Don't have much to add other than while facts don't have political valence as such, they have an undeniable impact on proto-political narratives, partly by regulating what is and what isn't possible or cost-effective.
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or is/isn't ideologically captured. so many of the culture war battlefronts are really about uncaptured ideas being fought over by ideologues who seek to capture them.
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