Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Damn, Marc, I must be running a temp - you and I are on the same page!:-) B. D. Marc James Small wrote: > At 09:32 PM 11/30/2000 +0100, Alan Hull wrote: > >I'm sorry Paul but I don't understand your problem with that. > >Everybody has a natural born ability for something and it is my > >understanding that these abilities are contained in a genetic code that > >determines behaviour and ability and physical characteristics. It is > >also my understanding that this genetic code is hereditry. I am > >certainly no expert on this and maybe I am confused between DNA and the > >genetic spiral. But surely it follows that if there is a heredity > >connection then groups of people isolated by language etc can form a > >national characteristic caused by the prevelence of a certain gene. > > Fundamentally, no. You are wrong. Traits such as the ability to make > precision instruments is not "genetic" but cultural. Read, inter multa > alia, Stephen Jay Gould's THE MISMEASURE OF MAN for discussion. > > Now, one prominent public leader in this century HAS adopted your > viewpoint. His name was Adolph Hitler. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!