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by yummyfajitas 4224 days ago
It doesn't change the basic purpose of the endeavor, which is to purport to rank the peoples of the world by intellectual capacity.

A general feature of many scientific endeavors is to measure $CARDINAL_PROPERTY across $CATEGORY - beak length across birds, speed across big cats, lifetime across mammals, etc. Do you oppose all these fields of inquiry, e.g. ranking stars by their brightness?

Or are these questions merely forbidden to ask about humans, due to some privileged position granted to us by god (or whatever)?