@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll Neoteny being real and IQ being measured doesn’t prove your causal chain. You’ve confused the existence of variables with proof they cause your conclusion.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll False analogy. “Pigs don’t fly” follows from established physics. Your genetic causation claim is an unproven biological hypothesis. Causation may exist, but until you demonstrate it, it’s just an assertion. Asking for evidence isn’t a corner it’s how claims are tested.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll Calling it “causative” doesn’t make it so. You still haven’t shown neoteny causes societal outcomes rather than merely correlating with other factors. IQ averages aren’t proof of your proposed genetic mechanism. You’ve mistaken correlation for causation.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll Neoteny describes a trait, not causation. IQ studies report population averages; they don’t prove your proposed genetic mechanism. You’ve merely asserted each link, not established it.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll You’re conflating “not yet proven false” with “therefore true.” The burden is still on you to provide evidence for your claim, not ask others to disprove it. You keep asserting genetics but never provide genetic evidence. That’s the gap in your argument.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll You’re making a biological causation claim If it’s scientifically obvious, there should be evidence. Dismissing the need for evidence doesn’t strengthen your argument it weakens it.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll You’re presenting a hypothesis as if it’s a proven fact. Where’s the peer-reviewed evidence that neoteny differences between populations cause intelligence differences, and that those intelligence differences determine civilisation? Until then it’s just an assertion.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll Neoteny doesn’t establish what you’re claiming. Even if populations differ in some average biological traits, you still need empirical evidence that those differences cause higher ‘civility’ at the population level. Simply naming a concept isn’t proof of your conclusion.
@TheDehdlyOne@HBrittish76908@NotFarLeftAtAll Belgium being white didn’t stop it committing atrocities in the Congo. If whiteness inherently produced civility, that shouldn’t have happened. Explaining it away by saying they were only civilised “at home” is just moving the goalposts.