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To: Lane3 who wrote (96958)	1/26/2005 12:08:33 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793725

And this is what I'm not getting. Races are either fundamentally the same or they are fundamentally different. Assuming the same threshold for "fundamental," how can those two frameworks be the same? A useful scientific theory needs to cover all the facts. A useful framework needs to function with a broad range of inputs. You are confusing the data or inputs (diversity) with the theory or framework (the mechanics of how, if at all, morality is dependant on diversity). If it could be made nice and tidy, it would look like this: MTO = F(d) or in words, Moral Treatment of Others = some Function of diversity. Diversity is the independent input data, the "framework" as I have been calling it is a mathematical function. My approach is to try and come to grips with F such that it performs well for all d. You approach is to try and constrain the range of d. (IMHO even to the point of denial about the true range of d) PS. Please note as I stated in a previous post, d is only a single variable, there are others. Thus MTO = F(d, x, y, z, etc) Hope this helps!