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I think his point is that we should accept/treat them as neighbours.

This kind of is the point. The feature that Jesus choose to use as the "out group", as a counter to the extreme "good behaviour" is "samaritanness". That he did this knowing that the othering of samaritans is based on an invented story that was specifically designed to "other" them in the eyes...

Genetics serves as a way to describe us, and in particular our ancestry. Formally, that allows us to define groups and put people into one or other of them, such as haplogroups.

A book review that seems relevant: The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt Allen Lane (2024) Two things need to be said after...

No, and you can get speciality wool from different breeds of sheep that is different colours.

I am.

Yes. Sorry again.

Questions you are yet to ask?

They excluded him from the group they thought they are obliged to care for.

Musk’s Neuralink hosts livestream showing quadriplegic playing online chess Elon Musk’s brain-chip start-up, Neuralink, has livestreamed a patient appearing to play online chess using only his mind. In a video posted on the X social media platform on Wednesday, Neuralink introduced Noland...

Interesting you should mention cars. I was thinking about using them to demonstrate my point, in that in the same 25 year time scale one could say the same thing happened to Mercedes, Volvo and BMW.

Roughly the same thing happened in board rooms across the S+P 500. It may be that a big part of HOW it happened at Boeing was the takeover, but the REASON it happened is because the system is set up such that the decision makers make a lot more money running a business like that.

That the corporate executive profession figured out that financial engineering was more profitable for the decision makers than real engineering across all sectors in the '90s. To point at one specific corporate arrangement and say it was these individuals who caused the problem risks falling...

It sounds like they have been using that impact: Accusations of editorial bias and subsequent boycott In May 2023, an open letter, signed by a hundred researchers who had previously published in the Archives of Sexual behavior, accused the journal of editorial bias against the LGBTQ community...