Will humans homogenize?
Physically? Unlikely. I expect the reverse, actually. As genetics and cybernetics improve, it seems likely to me that people will diversify more. Not everyone is going to want a prehensile tail, but some people will. Not everyone will want to be a brain in a jar. But some people will. Technology isgoing to grant tremendous morphological freedom, and I expect that people will express their preferences very differently.
thinking a lot about race issues lately
...But this time, I thought about ways to end racism
Racism isn't bad. Nor is it unique. It's utterly unimportant and completely arbitrary that our culture cares about it right now.
Racism is simply having
preference in regards to race. There's nothing wrong with having preference.
It's ok to have preferences. If you prefer chocolate ice cream over orange sherbet, there's nothing morally improper about that, and it would be silly to say that there is. Having preferences for
people is no different.
Let's say you like almonds but you don't like peanuts. Therefore you eat almonds and you don't eat peanut. Is that wrong? Is the person who only likes almonds "evil?" No, of course not. He simply has a preference, and chooses to act on it.
Now let's take a stereotypical white guy who only dates asian girls.
That's racism. But so what? He only likes asian girls, so he only dates asian girls.There's no problem here. Just like the guy who only eats almonds and not peanuts, there's nothing wrong with this. And again, it's completely an arbitrary and recent, purely local cultural phenomenon that people care about having preference for race.
For example, let's say you're a guy, and you're only attracted to females, and therefore you don't date guys, and you do date girls. That's having a preference based on gender, and acting on it. Is that wrong? Of course not. Let's say you're christian, and only want to associate with other christians. So having that preference, you choose to only associate with other christians, and you make a point of avoiding satanists. That is having a preference based on religion, and acting on it. Is it wrong? Of course not. Let's say you're a short woman and you've suffered all your life for being short, and you don't want your children to have the same problem, so you choose to have children with a tall man so that he can give his genes and hopefully have tall children. That's having a preference for height, and acting on it. IS that wrong? Again, no.
So clearly having preferences for people is ok. Go down the list, and you'll find all sorts of common sense examples of having and acting on preference for certain traits among people, that pretty much everyone will agree is ok.
But now plug race into any of those scenarios, and for some reason people freak out. Guy says he's only going to date, hang out with, or have children with white people, suddenly doing exactly the same thing based on this arbitrary other criteria, and people accuse him of being evil, immoral filth. Why? It's ok to have preference for anything else. What's so special about race that you're evil if you have a preference for it?
Nothing is special about it. It's a
completely arbitrary and
recent cultural convention of no importance. Just like it's fashionable for women to have long hair and wear heels. If you want to do those things, that's fine. But attaching moral significance to it is silly.
The thing that is the "bad" that people tend to associate with racism is
hurting people. If you don't like samoans, so you you don't hang out with samoans, that's ok. But if you don't like samoans so you beat them up on weekends...that's not ok.
But beating people up isn't ok
regardlessof whether it's motivated by race. If you beat somebody up for being samoan, that's not ok. But if you beat them up for taking the last mint from the candy bowl, that's also not ok. Race has nothing to do with it. It's the beating up the guy that's the not ok part. Racism is not bad. Hurting people is bad.
So my advice for the whole racism thing is to just get over it. Like what you like and don't worry too much about what other people like.