Quote from: dilatedPixel on April 11, 2013, 10:03:46 PM

Dear MatTheCat,

There are obviously differences between races...they are small, and differences within each race massively outweigh differences between races. The reason what you write sounds like illogical claptrap is because you extrapolate the actions of a few to a whole race. The banking elite make up .000000000001% of the Jewish people, and you are trying to extrapolate as if you have a significant sample. Why not just focus on the bankers themselves as individuals, and as their own group. The majority of the banking elite is non-Jewish...so a more objective (and less rife with confounding variables) view would be to treat them as a distinct group.

So.... most serial killers are white =\= white people have some sort of genetic subconscious-ancestral-serialkiller-crazyness problem? You are massively oversimplifying...again you try to use a small sample of outliers to readjust the whole bell curve of a population. Instead of looking at the race of white people to study serial killers, wouldn't it be more effective to study the tiny group of serial killers? Huh

Also correlation =\= causation.... it's a fallacy

The motivations and actions of individuals are complex...least among them is their race, chief among them is greed. Although race is often used as a pretext to give action to violent greed.

BTW, you should definitely invest in a "Jump to Conclusion Mat"

No.

You are the one is jumping to conclusions and who is oversimplifying. I put my case forward in a post on the first page of this thread. This is not something that can easily be dealt with through rational reductionist thinking that relies on breaking problems down into quantifiable easily understood parts, and crucially, tends to ignore any areas where this cant be done.

Of course, If I happened to be brutally abused when I was kid, and were to have grown up to be a serial killer, it could be rationally argued that I have far more in common with a Japanese serial killer, than we both do with the rest of the population or gene pool from which we spawn. This however, is a bullshit argument which is missing the point completely.

Either you get it or you dont. If you dont, then I cant help you.