I like that you accept to evaluate someone else's position before instantly putting them into the little "bigot" box.

It's much better to leave traces of your thinking process, instead of simply declaring that your conclusions are the only ones that are acceptable and others are idiots.

Let's take me for example. It just so happens that I'm rethinking my position on interracial marriage (yes, really). I haven't reached any solid conclusion yet, but I'm not as sure of my position as I once was.

My current uncertainty is based on a few things I learned in the past few years.

First, Sapolky's excellent "Human Behavioral Biology" did show me how incredibly susceptible we are to hormones; how a tiny little change can have huge impacts in our daily life. The part on delaying gratification was also eye opening for me. Some people are wired in a way that makes it very difficult for them to refuse a cookie now in exchange for two cookies later. So it's not necessarily that you are making a greater effort; you might be born in a way that makes it easier for you for delay gratification. I would recommend the complete playlist to anyone here. It is simply fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...

Second, the psychology professor Jordan B Peterson (https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos) teaches how an amazing predictor of success IQ is. You can see a little of what he has to say here: https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-beneficial-in-life-a-high...

Then I learned how IQ is highly correlated to genetics (from 0.75 to 0.8).

By the way, for you parents, this means that you might not be as good tutors as you think you are; you might just have given your child better genes. :-p

And finally, I read about the IQ differences between races. This forced me to look at other biological differences (life expectancy, height, prevalence of diseases, hormones levels, etc.)

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Okay, now let's see how this influences my thought process.

Say I want to have a child. I want to give my child the best chances in life. This means making sure the mom doesn't drink alcohol or smoke while pregnant, making sure the child is fed, entertained, surrounded with the best environment...

I also have Spinal muscular atrophy. This would influence if I'm willing to have a child with someone who is a carrier of the faulty gene. While it's possible to live with SMA(3-4) without major impact on life expectancy, it kinda sucks.

Same thing with a low IQ. You can certainly have a full life if you are less intelligent, but it's not something that I would wish for my child. Not only because it would probably make his life harder, but it would also limit the type of conversation I can have with him.

This brings us to the meat of the matter: I don't think that I would personally want to have a child with someone of another race if I know that it would push down his expected average IQ from 100 to 92 or lower, in addition to potentially increasing his testosterone levels.

And then, on a national level, mean IQ has a much more pronounced impact (law of big numbers). Averaging down the intelligence of your population is an irreversible process. Once you mixed it down, the only way (for now) to bring it back up would be to be actively reproduce smart people for it. Even if you are not smart yourself, having high IQ people is needed to maintain and improve your surroundings. If I remember correctly, the US Army doesn't accept people with an IQ lower than ~85 because it's counterproductive to have them around.

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So that's my current thought process. I realize that even questioning that "interracial marriage is good" clearly falls into the "bigot" category for many of you, but I hope that some might want to chip in one way or another.

Like I said, I haven't reached a solid conclusion yet, but I'm much less certain than I once was.