Putting race realism to bed in r/samharris.

I've observed that a lot of you may accept race realism as unfortunate reality but hold humanistic beliefs that we should all still be treated as individuals and that discrimination based on broad averages is wrong and unfair. I can commend this position, if I thought race realism was valid in any way, this would be the position I would take: 'Race is real, but who cares?'

To be honest this is where I had come down on this issue, although I haven't really looked in to the science enough to have strongly held opinions one way or another. I appreciate your links in this regard. But for the sake of argument lets say that race realism was true. This is the one issue that cuts against my view that knowing truth is better than not knowing truth, because it is abundantly clear that this community and the world are not ready to know this. As long as most of us are failing to appreciate the ethics of any other luck of birth scenario, we are going to fail to get this right as well. The longer we get from the Charles Murray interview, the more it looks like a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time Sam gave his audience too much credit.

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