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To: Lane3 who wrote (61883)	10/9/2002 1:19:27 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Understood. I just would like some elementary comprehension. I don't expect much on the hard stuff, but something like this, sheesh.......

To: Lane3 who wrote (61883)	10/9/2002 1:30:02 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

A couple of questions occurred to me: if self- interest is the final arbiter of morality, shouldn't we have a duty to learn? It is obviously better for us than ignorance. Isn't it common to feel humiliated when one doesn't know something that seems to be common knowledge? (That would indicate the operation of the internalized value). And don't we generally have contempt for those who are scatterbrained, obsessed with trivialities, remarkably uninformed, and/or incompetent for their position? At best, the incompetent attorney, full of bluster to hide his ignorance, is a comic figure of ridicule, for example......

To: Lane3 who wrote (61883)	10/9/2002 1:41:15 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Another observation: I believe that the reason Ashkenazi Jews do better than most ethnic groups on tests, and American blacks do worse, is not a matter of genetics, but of culture. Out of the Talmudic milieu, a very high value was placed on learning, even, eventually, secular learning, and young men were driven to attain a certain level of knowledge, even if they were to be milkmen or farmers. In the black milieu, where just a few generations ago one would get beaten for trying to learn to read, and where most people, even after emancipation, stayed on the farm or performed menial tasks, there is no such drive (apart from the black elite).