“Empathy towards animals showed a significant association with OXTR SNP rs2254298; HOMOZYGOUS G individuals reported higher levels of empathy towards animals than heterozygous (GA).”
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Dear Jabowery, what does the genetic stuff mean, please?
Other’n that: love it.
I remember being in Boston, a few decades ago now, and Chinese or maybe some other Asian immigrants had eaten all the ducks in the Boston Common pond. The feckless fowl of course walked right up to the Orientals, expecting to be fed, and they wrung their necks to make Peking Duck.
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To quote Scott Adams’s definition of “America”:
“I don’t care that my NEIGHBOR … I mean take my NEIGHBORHOOD: Do you think they all agree with me on politics? NO! Do I love my NEIGHBORS? They’re awesome. I got the greatest NEIGHBORS. I’m so lucky. That’s true. I just have amazing NEIGHBORS. But none of us are worried about who agrees with anybody about politics. We don’t talk about it. It’s just not a thing. It’s not important.”
So, now let’s talk about a recently evolved phenotype like empathy with animals starting with the domestication of wolves so that an individual man could command his own hunting pack: everyman a sovereign individual.
Recessives like the G-allele, are mutations that only work in tandem with their mate. The resulting phenotypes, like animal empathy, are “intolerant” of outbreeding. In this respect they’re “xenophobic”. They’re “racist”. They’re “fragile” as in “white fragility”.
In short: Recessives are, in the moral zeitgeist, the epitome of EVIL!
This is why Hollywood casts blond blue eyed men as EVIL to the point that it is an inside joke that is now widely shared around the world. A side benefit is getting those shiksas to despise their phenotypic mates, move to the city if not Hollywood itself – and destroy whatever human ecology advantages might have obtained in the culture of individual integrity.
So we get to the point that NEIGHBORS on the same DNA locus, silence some of the most recently evolved phenotypes. And if that isn’t enough, some of the most valuable phenotypes imaginable:
Individual integrity that gives rise to cultural creativity despite being crucified regularly throughout the history of civilization when group integrity phenotypes, going back to the Chimpanzee Human Last Common Ancestor gang warfare, began to chase us from the Garden.
Getting back to Scott Adams and his luxury belief in pluralism (local diversity):
What are the odds that some NGO or Federal agency moves a Haitian next door to him with a penchant for animal sacrifice as Scott walks his dog? What are the odds they’ll do that with Section-8 housing in my little town of 250?
To ask is to answer the question as to why all the powers of the world see guys like me as the epitome of EVIL.
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Thank you.
I have to tell my dear polymaths that right now I am going through a horrible agon with my (until recently) beautiful Labrador retriever. And it’s convincing me that the veterinary “profession” does not deserve the title.
It’s a full month now since I began my assiduous efforts to cure her of a sudden- onset skin infection. And she’s just getting worse and worse, she now has open lesions that won’t heal. She has been on 3 different antibiotics, medicated shampoo, and steroids. Most recently the advise from the ER vet is that steroids may be exacerbating the problem.
So I, with the best intentions, have been poisoning her by my painstaking efforts to mix those pills with tasty food to make sure she eats it ALL?
I can’t tell you how terrible I feel.Does this mean I’m a good genotype? Please say yes, it will be my only consolation.
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You’re probably GG but not just because you exhibit the phenotype, but also because I think you’ve confessed some “taint” of the Scotch Irish. This isn’t to say those without the relatively easy path to individuality are accursed, since all sexual being descends from 600M years of individual sexual selection, which runs much deeper than the mere 6M year old CHLCA curse of gang warfare.
That said, I know it will be a double-sided comfort to you for me to say that your dog would gladly give her life for you. But you know that don’t you?
Dogs are a gift from God.
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“Taint”? . Yes I Am Scotch- Irish and proud. Bydand! ( That’s not a typo, it’s the motto of the Gordon clan.)
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