Don’t the progs have to have a brain to participate?
heehee!
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Well, it should be clear where the liberal, homo segment checks in here............
As has been said many times, calling it homo"phobia" is flat out wrong, when it is a disgust with their behavior that is the core of the rejection.
“In the more recent study, researchers discovered a greater volume of gray matter in two areas of the brain for subjects reporting conservative attitudes. “
Yep, just like I said recently, the human race is actually experiencing a true evolutionary split that will separate us into two distinct groups, one conservative and the other liberal. And you said that the conservatives will be the dominate species, and the one most likely to survive and thrive, because so many of us, in general, are fiercely independent and are resourceful and creative. Well, we may have been joking about all of this at the time, but there is actually science to support our wild speculation.
What about people who switch sides?
How do they determine what’s liberal and what’s conservative, anyway? I’ve never been sure.
“ideology is learned or imprinted onto a blank slate”
BS.
The “core foundations” and supposedly “higher moral faculties” are very vague. So are the ideological identifications, of course. But I wonder how they propose to turn “individualizing” and “binding” scientifically into ideological tags. Except by asking the subjects. But what do young people know about themselves? I suppose it doesn’t matter, since whatever they say matches up in an objective pattern with the brainscans and the foundations/faculties, no matter what we call them.
I just wonder what substance there is to thinking such vagueries can determine abstract questions like how big a problem is the deficit or ought we to go to war over Iranian nukes. Obviously the parties are cut generally along sentimental lines. And philosophically on the whole conservatives I’ve always thought were more individualistic and liberals collectivist. Unless you’re talking about sec and drugs on the one side and national defense on the other.
Psychology and neuroscience are closely enough related. Of course the former is a pretender. Sociology is linked to the former but not the latter. Political science has become a philosophy/sociology hybrid. Here you have neuroscience making claims on philosophy when it’s four times removed. All it can really say is kids who claim to be so-and-so share like brains, and their brains match up with states we’ve given pretentious emotional names. Amidst admissions that it’s all more complicated than we’ll ever know materialism continues it’s long campaign to conquer all.
Thought is determined by matter and environment. That’s what they think and that’s what you’ll think dang blast it.
I just love these eggheads who think that humans are nothing more than a collection of cells, and that there’s nothing else that motivates them.
How do they account for people whose political leanings change over time? Mine have changed a full one hundred and eighty degrees in my lifetime. Did I grow a new brain or something? What happened to the old one?
Poppycock.