From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 21:06:14 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dehede011@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:30 PM
>
> In a message dated 9/5/2002 9:02:57 PM Central Standard Time,
> gregburch@gregburch.net quotes: That is why it is so scary to
> me to see
> racial profiling, group judgments, eugenics, selective child
> killing, and The
> Bell Curve discussed on this list as if they are reasonable
> positions within
> our philosophy
>
> Greg,
> I do protest having the Bell Curve included in a list
> with "racial
> profiling, group judgments, eugenics, selective
> childkilling". IMHO, that
> is a perfectly good book pointing out some problems in our
> society that have
> nothing to do with race. Richard Epstein formerly Dean of
> the University of
> Chicago School of Law has pointed out the same set of
> problems in our society
> without reference to race. In addition I have read those
> same problems,
> supposedly more advanced than ours, without reference to
> race, IQ or to the
> work of Richard Epstein. Finally, as I used to go about my
> profession,
> occasionally working in factories in the inner cities, I used
> to see those
> problems personally. And no the problems did not break down
> along racial
> lines.
I didn't write that. I confess to not having read "The Bell Curve" and
don't have an opinion about that book. I've read quite a bit of Epstein
and generally find him to be one of the best legal philosophers of our
time.
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
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