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I'd love to participate in a communal healthcare system, but I don't believe that I have the right to demand that others do the same.

Score on IQ tests is a far better predictor of SES than parental SES. Someone in the 95th percentile for IQ will, on average, earn more than someone with parents in the 95th percentile of earnings.

See: http://www.emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intellige...

>"The first thing to remember is that the differences among individuals are far greater than the differences between groups."

All this means is that there is some degree of overlap between the two curves; that not every member of group A is more intelligent than every member of group B. Which is trivially true; even the most virulent racists would agree without hesitation that Clarence Thomas is more intelligent than a mentally disabled white person.

The height differences among Filipinos is greater than the difference in average height between Filipinos and the Dutch. Yet we can still say that on average Dutch people are taller than Filipinos, and understand that the underrepresentation of Filipinos in fields that select for height is not the result of societal oppression.

I'm ethnically European, so my ancestors shared the same race and values as the demography of the United States at the time. More so, the country at that time did not strive to provide government funded food, shelter, or healthcare, so no financial burden was required to support them.

I don't think it would have benefited, say, Israel or Japan to have extended my ancestors citizenship.

>We do not value human beings based on whether they are net positive or negative contributors to societal resources.

Of course we do. This is the stated, principle reason for immigration in almost all countries that allow it.

The Scandinavian countries have found this not to be the case- statistically the successive generations are actually less prone to educational attainment and more prone to radicalization than their parents.

In my personal experiences, the first generation immigrants are thrilled to be here, while their children lack the same sense of gratitude and tend to resent growing up around white people.

Yes of course, I live in the D.C. area.

While most of the Muslims I've met have been perfectly nice folks, I don't consider my personal experiences with individuals to be the best way to evaluate groups.

I voted for Trump, and am very happy with the ban- I don't see the benefit of bringing in Muslim refugees.