[ExI] Human species model

[William Flynn Wallace]

All good and I agree.  Now what happened to genetics/blank slate, and
rationality?  bill w

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:09 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> >>…Spike wrote  On the contrary.  If we look at the postulates suggested,
> time has proven both very right.
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> >…Spike, we are having a very serious breakdown in understanding  You are
> not seriously saying that learning is everything, meaning genetics counts
> for nothing, or that people are totally rational.
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> Please explain
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> bill w
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> Hi BillW,
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> The US Constitution was framed by guys who had just gotten through a
> bloody conflict over authority.  You can see throughout that document that
> it was designed to limit Federal government power, and to distribute power
> with checks and balances.
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> The Bill of Rights exists because several of the states would not agree to
> form a federal government unless certain human rights were acknowledged and
> specifically defined, such as free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to
> bear arms, freedom from arbitrary police actions and so on.  The ideals of
> rationality you mentioned may well have been held, but the framers were
> really all about limiting federal government power.
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> The things they wrote and did make so much sense in that light,  Time has
> proven them so very right: power corrupts.
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