There might be some category of "aggression", or even something like "psychopathy", that is heritable and that correlates with criminal convictions. Or it could be some totally other thing, I don't know.
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I guess what bothers me is that I said something which AFAIK basically everyone who has looked into it even briefly believes (genetics can predict criminality moderately well) and was accused of being some kind of crazy-out-there scientific racist.
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I have no problem with you being unsure about this because you haven't checked the research. But I feel like that precludes you saying that people who have one opinion are "technofascists" and (ironically) "brain geniuses".
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I don't think I'm motte-and-baileying - I wrote in middle of a long post that I predict polygenic scores will predict some amount of criminality. Everyone except you seemed to understand this was on the same scale as existing IQ predictors.
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I do think you're motte-and-baileying between "Look at this racist fascist crazy person" and "Well, the research is so complicated that nobody can be SURE this is wrong"
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I don't know how to argue that I'm motivated more by wanting to be able to discuss scientific research on important topics without being called fascist than by desire to hurt poor people for fun. Seems crazy to me to believe opposite.
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Your papers agree that something called "criminality" or "antisocial behaviour" is hereditary without bothering to consider how either of those terms are constructed. That's my whole point. You can't get around that just by reasserting the original statement.
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I don't know why it seems crazy to you that I would suspect you of arguing in bad faith. That seems like special pleading to me. You assume leftists are arguing in bad faith basically all the time.
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I'm trying to put myself inside your head now. I guess if you think that most people aren't really racist any more, it would seem ridiculous to you that I would even suspect you of being some kind of crazy out-there scientific racist.
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