melomanias, etc.

sexta-feira, janeiro 14, 2011

So what if we're not (biologically) equal?

“There is, in fact, no incompatibility between the principles of feminism and the possibility that men and women are not psychologically identical. To repeat: equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.”
Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature