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"Mr President, the nature-nurture debate used to be the most important in politics and was the key to a whole range of political views. The nurture side had much to be said for it – perceived kindness and fairness and, of course, non-discrimination. The nature side had only evidence to support it.
However, nurture now seems to have been declared the winner without a contest. Indeed, nature has been airbrushed out of the picture, even as a contestant. All public policies, whether devised by left, right, centrist or a populist safety valve, base their policies on a false assumption. They assume equal potential ability, which does no favours to those without it. They assume third world migrants can be substitute Europeans, when they only turn Europe into the third world. They confuse social mobility with equality of opportunity and do not realise that the latter will eventually bring the former to a shuddering halt. They throw money at continents that cannot benefit from it, because Europe takes their brightest and best."@en1
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