Not bullshit. And you already know that. And I know that you already know that...
Whether one wishes to admit it or not, there is such a thing as a random distribution curve for systems in which a random factor is incorporated. In humans that random factor is driven by random genetic mutations.
While it may be comforting to believe that "all men are created equal" they most certainly are not. And thankfully have never been. With apologies to those with a fundamentally different viewpoint on this, it's these very same random differences, filtered through the sieve of natural selection, that gave rise to the human species in the first place. Were we not all different, we would not be at all. Natural selection only works when there is a preferred selection between unequal choices.
Biologists quietly know this. Demographers also quietly know this. Many other specialists as well. But you will never hear them say so in front of a microphone, except in the most general of terms. They may, by way of example, talk about some puppies being the runt of the litter, but they will
never publicly extrapolate beyond that. It would be professional suicide.
It's the Original Sin in Science to assert that particular truth. There is very little upside, but prodigious downside to doing so in the public domain. Best just to allow people to believe that they are all potentially as equal as everyone else. That includes you, Clive. And me. And everyone else reading this. It is what it is.
Michael is absolutely correct here.
Ken
