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Default Re: thoughts on nationalism.

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Originally Posted by lunulae View Post
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?
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.
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