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[dave29]

It's sad to me that you haven't been able to pick up on the fact that applying the Razor in regards to your own combative nature in this thread is a thousand times simpler than applying it to the perspective you have on racism. And also, the most important part of the razor (which is often misapplied) is the concept of all other things being equal. It's only through a painstaking effort of balancing the arguments so that they stand alone in opposition to each other, free of bias or opinion, that one can arrive at the simplest conclusion. And even then there's a chance you are wrong. Quantum physics alone would make William of Ockham's head explode.

Even geniuses can admit when they are wrong: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040716/ap_on_sc/britain_black_holes_4

Please try to allow a different perspective in - it does a body good. If it's only about winning for you, I'd suspect you've already lost - and, I hate to say it, but you're just behaving like an intellectual bigot.