Tuesday, July 10, 2018

moral equality

But it is a dangerous mistake to premise the moral equality of human beings on biological similarity because dissimilarity, once revealed, then becomes an argument for moral inequality. - Human genetic diversity: Lewontin’s fallacy by A.W.F. Edwards
“To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assertion that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment.” (Fr. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, Chicago University Press, 1960, p. 86)
see also 10 Questions for A. W. F. Edwards: I had stopped working in human and population genetics in 1968 on moving to Cambridge because I could not get any support...

и еще раз: The universal genetic program and the custom-built phenotype: implications for race and sex by Ed Hagen

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