Here are the five main beliefs:
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1.Just as intelligence, a moral sense, aesthetic appreciation, and other factors place humans above animals, some humans are in a very deep sense better than other humans.
2.Society disproportionately benefits from the scientific and artistic genius of a select few. An important goal of government and public policy is to channel their energies in productive directions and leave them free to pursue their missions.
3.As confirmed by modern behavioral genetics, heredity is the dominant force behind human variation.
4.Egalitarian ideology and concerns over what is called "social justice" are primarily driven by ugly instincts, namely envy and feelings of inferiority.
5.While all rational beings must be utilitarians to some degree, everyone has non-utilitarian commitments. The best ones put an emphasis on beauty, freedom, and progress, rather than pleasing supernatural beings, fealty to some "natural" order, the glorification of imagined communities like nations, or equality of outcomes.
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I’m not an expert yet but I remember learning in my psychology class that personality (and IQ) is influenced by both genetics and environment. Bio-essentialism is so very frustrating. I also think they misunderstand IQ and personality in general, they don’t equate to one’s values and “superiority.”
IQ is a fake-ass concept in the first place.
I agree but it was talked ad nauseam in my psych class so I figured I’d mention it, especially since these types seem so focused on it. But also from what I learned “IQ” is incredibly strange, as in it seems to be at the mercy of multiple environmental factors but people get so hung up on “genetic links” because, to me, they don’t want to solve the material conditions that factor into intelligence. There was a studying we looked at that interested me but I won’t go into detail here since it’s a bit much.