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Originally Posted by lunulae
regarding "why scientists don't believe in ethnicity", i thought it was scientifically demonstrated that humans are split up into subraces etcetera.
why would they have no interest in preserving these races and the manifold of homo sapiens sapiens?
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Even if racial differences were scientifically proven, Hume's "is-ought" problem, the discrepancy between the descriptive and the normative, would still apply. Deriving ethics—and, by extension, politics—from science is a logical cul-de-sac.