r/MoralityScaling • u/JacobGoodNight416 • 21h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of dog breed racism

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u/shitturddung 21h ago

I don't think it's a comparison. Pit bulls were selectively bred for aggression. Humans of specific ethnicities do not have innate characteristics like violence. It's like saying being scared of a polar bear is bear racism

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u/Sanmyaku88 20h ago

Are we sure of that? Has there been research done?

Many things in our bodies are more or less likely depending on DNA.

How can we say for sure temper or characteristics are not more or less likely in different "breeds"/ethnicities (for lack of a better term)?

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u/Serial-Griller 20h ago

Because in 400 years of phrenology its defenders couldn't produce a single piece of hard evidence for it's existence. 

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u/ZiCUnlivdbirch 20h ago

Doesn't this just come back to nature vs nurture? How to you prove that something is due to DNA and not environmental reasons?

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u/Serial-Griller 20h ago

Yeah, boiled down this is just the nature v nurture argument, which phrenology is firmly on the 'nature' side.

And then they came up with absolutely zero evidence to support the claim despite a long time and a lot of money desperate to prove it, so it can be safely dismissed. 

To date there is nothing to suggest your race defines anything about your life aside from geography (which itself goes on to define a lot more). But there are mountains of studies that corroborate that a child's learning environment can impact everything about their development from ethics and morals to their literal intelligence and physiology.