I suspect that ‘contemplationist’ may have confused you with my request for ‘left libertarian virtual anti-fascist action’. It seems that I was careless, and while aiming for a fascist you may have accidentally shot a mere racist. This is terrible, as such carelessness is inexcusably bad form. Therefore may I suggest that to improve our future coordination we practice shooting the wounded racist over and over and over again until it stays dead?

Except that I think that you and Rod may have already killed it. Apparently racists have 0 immunity vs. actual science. Quite nicely done, except now I don’t get my turn with the Glock. Hmmph.

Perhaps we should see the silver lining to this stormcloud. If it weren’t for racists and fascists and the like there’s be nobody for vengeful humanists to shoot at. That sounds really doubleplusunfun.

I think I owe you a sauerkraut sandwich.

Sorry about the mess, y’all.

I’ve met some moderately retarded people who are quite good at their native languages. I doubt they could learn calculus.

I agree that most people don’t apply themselves or “focus” as Rand might say, but the evidence for the basic thesis of the Bell Curve is quite strong.

-Neil Parille

For some reason that makes me feel a whole lot better.

If we’d never seen what armless people can do with their legs and feet, we’d never dream what physical accomplishments people are capable of.

If the average person believed that calculus — or any discipline for that matter — was constitutive of their happiness, then they would more than likely learn it.

Certainly I think most people could master calculus if they trained long enough and hard enough at it; that doesn’t strike me as implausible at all.

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It strikes me as very implausible. I think Charles Murray made the point that most people on the right side of the bell curve have little involvement with people to the left and therefore have mistaken beliefs about the average person’s intellectual ability.

-Neil Parille