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Zim said almost gently, „You’ve got it all wrong, son. There’s no such thing as a ‚dangerous weapon.’ „ „Huh? Sir?“ „There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
The urge to help Hispanic immigrants in the 1980s led to multicultural education programs that emphasized the differences among Americans rather than their shared values and identity. Emphasizing differences makes many people more racist, not less.
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
In the tragic vision, individual sufferings and social evils are inherent in the innate deficiencies of all human beings, whether these deficiencies are in knowledge, wisdom, morality, or courage. Moreover, the available resources are always inadequate to fulfill all the desires of all the people. Thus there are no “solutions” in the tragic vision, but only trade-offs that still leave many desires unfulfilled and much unhappiness in the world. What is needed in this vision is a prudent sense of how to make the best trade-offs from the limited options available, and a realization that “unmet needs” will necessarily remain—that attempting to fully meet these needs seriatim only deprives other people of other things, so that a society pursuing such a policy is like a dog chasing its tail.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
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