2022-09-25

45: Individual Is Not Responsible for Whatever Population Individual Is Lumped in

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A red marble is no less red just because it is lumped in an all-the-others-are-blue population. It is not responsible for the others' being blue.

Topics


About: bias
About: probability

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Starting Context

Target Context


  • The reader will understand that judging an individual based on the others of any population is injustice.

Orientation


What we are supposed to do is to maintain the unboundedly consistent hypotheses system.

To establish the unbounded consistency is the only way to near truths.

Main Body

Stage Direction
Here is Special-Student-7 in a room in an old rather isolated house surrounded by some mountains in Japan.

1: A Red Marble Is No Less Red, Lumped in Whatever Population


Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Here is a red marble.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I do not see any marble, to say nothing of a red marble

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Suppose that here is a red marble.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 OK.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 It is very red.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 How very red?

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 It is redder than you can imagine.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 . . .

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 It is very red.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I understand that.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 It is no less red just because it is lumped together with 99 very blue marbles.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Of course.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 The population is said to be 99% blue.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 That statement is correct.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 But the very red marble is not 99% blue.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Of course: it is very red.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 It is redder than you are.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I am not particularly red.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Then, all the more it is redder than you are.

Anyway, it is an absurd injustice for you to blame the very red marble just because it is lumped in the 99% blue population, because the very red marble is far more redder than you are.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Of course, even if we suppose that being blue is something to be blamed.

2: A Very Sweet Apple of a Not-So-Sweet-on-Average Kind Is Sweeter Than Most Apples of a Sweet-on-Average Kind


Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Some people would say "I have not arbitrarily lumped a red marble with 99 blue marbles; I am talking about a kind of apples."

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Would they mean that the choice of the population was logical?

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 They should mean so; as all the apples of a kind shared the same set of genes, they would share the traits.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 But we have some evidences that a tree bears sweeter fruits than another tree of the same kind does, because of soil, sunshine, temperatures, water, care, etc..

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 On average, you mean.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 On average, I mean; also from a tree, a fruit is sweeter than another, because there are good branches and bad branches, there are good buds and bad buds, sunshine is not uniform, some leaves are eaten by worms, etc..

Usually, amounts like sweetness are distributed according to bell curves, and a very sweet apple of a not-so-sweet-on-average kind is sweeter than most apples of a sweet-on-average kind.

3: The Individuals of a Human Race Are Not a Bunch of Clones


Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Besides, while all the apple trees of a kind are a bunch of clones, the individuals of a human race are not so.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 To inform someone who does not know, the tree grown from a seed of the kind is not of the kind.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 As any human child does not have the exactly same set of genes of a parent, the tree grown from a seed does not have the exactly same set of genes of the parent.

So, any tree of the kind is made only by grafting a twig of the kind onto a stock, which has been grown from a seed.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Then, the upper part of the tree certainly has the genes of the kind, a crone.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 What everybody has to know is that while a clone apple of a not-so-sweet-on-average kind cannot be truthfully prejudged to be not sweet, a non-clone individual of a human race can be less truthfully prejudged to be incompetent, unworthy, or a lawyer.

4: We Sincerely Suspect That There Are Some Differences in AVERAGE Born-Intelligence Across Races, but . . .


Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 This may be controversial somewhat, but I sincerely say this because I am disgusted with lies even if beautiful: I suspect that there are some differences in average born-intelligence across races (note that I had "average" in place).

That is because it is quite unnatural to suspect otherwise: while skin color, height, etc. are influenced by some genes, is only born-intelligence not influenced by any gene at all? . . . Let us refrain from such a blatant lie.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I guess that average born-intelligences cannot be exactly the same across races, although I have no data to estimate the extent of the differences.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 I think that there is a reasonable possibility that a too benevolent environment has indulged genes of a race a little, because relatively less intelligence could be required to survive in such an environment.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Well, that sounds plausible on 1st impression, although I do not lightly adopt that as my hypothesis.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Anyway, I have dared to disclose the suspicion not in order to disparage a race; on the contrary, my intention is to refute disparagement based on the suspicion.

I do not think that blatant "beautiful" lies like "All are equal." will eliminate biases; if such lies prevail outwardly, biases will dig in inwardly and prevail there.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I agree that unless a bias is revealed where it is really wrong, the bias will survive, if hidden.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 A cure of the bias is, as expected, that a person of a not-so-intelligent-on-average race is more intelligent than most of an intelligent-on-average race.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 That is a statistical fact.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 The other cure is that born-intelligence is less decisive than learning is.

In fact, a learned person with not-so-high-born-intelligence is usually less stupid than an unlearned one with high-born-intelligence.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 In my estimation, born-intelligence is mostly about efficiency for learning; certainly, high efficiency is very desirable, but high efficiency is nothing for anybody who does not learn in the 1st place, and while it may be hard for a person with low-born-intelligence to exceed a person with high-born-intelligence who learns hardest, considering the situation that most people do not learn hard enough, it is really possible for a person with low-born-intelligence to exceed most people.

5: It Is an Exception? So What?


Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Some people seem to dismiss a very sweet apple of a not-so-sweet-on-average as just an exception.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 It is an exception, so what?

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 They say "There are always some exceptions.".

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 So what?

Being an exception does not make the apple any less sweet; how in the hell could someone possibly imagine that treating a very sweet apple as though it was not sweet could escape being an injustice?

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Someone will bring up "joint liability", perhaps?

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Absurd! Please take some rest from being irrational! The very sweet apple is not in any way responsible for another apple's being not sweet.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Certainly, "joint liability" is irrational, but it is really prevalent on the Bias Planet, partly because it is a typical method for corner-cutting.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Ah, I know; someone does not want to bother to attend to each individual, so, he or she roughly lumps individuals together in a population and treat all the members of the population indiscriminately. He or she is saying "You should suffer injustices in order for me to do corner-cuttings.".

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Yes, and rulers especially tend to love "joint liability", because they can delegate the work of watching individuals to each group whose members desperately watch each other in order for themselves to be not punished because of other members.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Why the hell must I be punished just because I have happened to be lumped together with a naughty guy?

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 It is really unjust, but rulers do not care being unjust.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Even "God" seems to be a fan of corner cuttings: why must the descendants of Adam be punished just because Adam ate an apple? Let Adam solely take the blame. It is a "joint liability"; it is absurd; it is unjust.

6: Intellectual Laziness Is a Sin


Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 We can call the propensity for corner-cuttings 'laziness' in another word.

I find that intellectual laziness is really a problem.

That is because as someone does corner-cuttings in recognitions, he or she harbors a wrong world view, and anyone who acts on any wrong world view cannot help but do injustices to others.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Certainly.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Some people may be thinking that although laziness is certainly not laudable, in fact deplorable, it is not particularly a sin, but they are greatly mistaken.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Yes.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 While there are many people who hate to study, they inevitably do injustices based on wrong world views. Anyone simply cannot form any decent world view without studying, and simply cannot act justly based on wrong world views.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Certainly.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Having benevolence is not enough; sound understandings are required.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Yes.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 . . . Can you say only "Certainly" and "Yes"?

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Well, it is just that there is nothing to rebut.

To elaborate more, there is no such thing as a "benevolence" that is OK with not studying while studying is indispensable for acting justly.

7: Any Population Is a Somewhat Arbitrary Intrusion


Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Any individual is an individual.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Of course.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 An individual is not particularly a Thai.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I think, someone is.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 I mean, an individual is certainly a Thai, but also is a male, a foot fetishist, a lawyer, or something.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I guess, someone is.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 He is not particularly a foot fetishist.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 I think, he is.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 I mean, he certainly is, but does not need to be judged by a statistical distribution of the population of foot fetishists.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Well, judging with the population of lawyers may not be kinder.

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 Anyway, whatever population with which you judge him is somewhat arbitrary and an intrusion.

Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 A usual stratagem is for you to pick up a population that gives an impression convenient for your purpose, but another population may just give a rather opposite impression.

8: What Is Permitted Is Just to Be Careful, Without Abuse


Special-Student-7-Rebutter
 Some people will say "But, shouldn't I be careful when a population is 99% terrorists?".

Special-Student-7-Hypothesizer
 I think that they should, . . . so what?

A usual tactic by evil people is to twist a concept: being careful is just being careful, not treating a might-not-be-a-terrorist person as a terrorist.

Just be careful without any abuse.

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