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I think the reason our leaders are constantly pushing the philosophy that human behavior is primarily the result of our environment is because the people who have risen to the top of society are people who are badly behaved. When they get caught at their crimes, they don't want us to consider the possibility that they are genetically inferior to us. Instead, they want us to feel sorry for them and assume that their horrible behavior is the result of the environment, and that we can fix their problem by giving them therapy, or by teaching them Christianity, or by putting them in jail for a short period of time, or by making them pay a small fine. If instead we were to follow the philosophy that they are genetically inferior, then we would be tempted to remove them from society, or force them into a job where they won't cause us any harm.

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