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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoConsider this dichotomy: https://jalopnik.com/study-finds-cyclists-are-better-people-than-drivers-1850964103 https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoAh yes, the “science” of determining which population is composed of better people.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoRead the fucking article. It defines specifically what it means (civic engagement/interest in the common good, basically), and it is measurable.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoIt’s not that there are measurable things about people that I doubt. What I doubt is that you can scientifically demonstrate that someone is better than someone else. Humanities students don’t read any more and it shows
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoi have never been called a cockroach. i have been called gay a lot though by truck drivers.
Consider this dichotomy:
https://jalopnik.com/study-finds-cyclists-are-better-people-than-drivers-1850964103
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
Ah yes, the “science” of determining which population is composed of better people.
Read the fucking article. It defines specifically what it means (civic engagement/interest in the common good, basically), and it is measurable.
It’s not that there are measurable things about people that I doubt. What I doubt is that you can scientifically demonstrate that someone is better than someone else.
Humanities students don’t read any more and it shows
i have never been called a cockroach. i have been called gay a lot though by truck drivers.
did they honk your horn?