Re: "Racial" medicine

On Sat, 6 May 2006 00:04:29 +0000 (UTC),
dmcanzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Canzi -- non-mailable) wrote:

In article <nqen525e5mpkgk2blg13eqojeoo0ee4klm@xxxxxxx>,
r norman <NotMyRealEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The word "race", when applied to humans, almost invariably means
black/white/yellow or african/european/asian or whatever other term
you wish to apply. These groups are not in any way genetically
homogeneous and distinctly different from the others. The differences
within the groups is as large or larger than differences between the
groups. Clearly one can differentiate between a Tutsi and a Finn,
between an Ashkenazi Jew and a Hmong. But you get enormous
difficulties lining up all the peoples of the world and trying to sort
them into piles. You either end up with an enormous number of piles,
most of which have no clear cut demarcations, or give up and lump
everybody into the same pile.

Suppose you built a chair with a flat seat and back. Then suppose
you built another a quarter-inch wider, and another a quarter-inch
wider than that, and so on. Having started with something that
99 out of 100 observers would agree is a chair, you end up with
something that 99 out of 100 observers would agree is a bench.
Somewhere in the middle, between a chair and a bench, you'll
have something people can't agree on: some will say it's a chair
for Mero Wolfe; some will say it's a bench for anorexics; and
some will say it's Frankenfurniture -- neither chair nor bench.
There is no clear-cut demarcation, therefore the distinction
between chairs and benches is invalid and they must be considered
indistinguishably the same kind of furniture.

Are you trying to make a point here? If so, what would it be?

It is quite obvious that there are chairs and there are benches. It
is quite obvious that there are people who look "black" and people who
look "white". The point is that there is not a valid biological
category "black" or "white". You can go to a furniture store and ask
to see the chairs or ask to see the benches. However, if you were to
rigorously and scientifically define different categories, you would
have to conclude there is only a wide diversity of seating.

Given a very long historical record, there is not a lot of consequence
in saying that something that thinks itself a chair to be a bench.
Given a very long historical record, there is an enormous consequence
in saying that somebody is of this "race" as opposed to that one.
There is no scientific basis for human race and a very large number of
people that want to institute one (though certainly not everybody)
have very ulterior and very evil motivations. Those people must be
given no basis for their actions.




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