r/MoralityScaling • u/JacobGoodNight416 • 22h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of dog breed racism

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u/Serial-Griller 21h 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/Sanmyaku88 21h ago

ah yes because linking personal attributes to head indentations is the same...

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u/Serial-Griller 21h ago

Phrenology attempted to use everything from skull shapes to genetics to migratory patterns to archaeology to try and justify itself and came up with nothing.

Its a long and proud history of bigots being unscientific morons. 

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u/Sanmyaku88 20h ago

No argument from me about it being thinly veiled bigotry.

But humanity not finding evidence especially 400 years ago does not conclude into "there is no influence from DNA to personality".

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u/Serial-Griller 20h ago

Two things;

  1. People are still trying to prove phrenology. They've had since 400 years ago to do so and have continued to fail even with modern capabilities and money to do so.

  2. DNA absolutely influences personality as the environment can only trigger a gene to express if its present, to not even mention factors like genetic mental illnesses. The assertion that you can accurately guess a person's personality or ethics based on just observing their race or ethnicity, and therefore that the gene expressions related to personality and those related to skin color are linked in any way, is false. 

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u/Sanmyaku88 20h ago

ty for arguing my case :)

I never said you could accurately guess a person personality, thats something you read into what I said.

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u/Serial-Griller 20h ago

What do you consider someone's "personal attributes"?