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[ignoramus]

Does it prove or disprove your strength in ethics when you believe in universal healthcare, vast education reform, women's rights, public transportation, and multiculturalism, and you still wish all the dumb people would kill themselves? Maybe they should just give a bunch of tax breaks to smart people, call it trickle-down acumen. Shift welfare

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[princessdulla]

You know, I really do think you have a pretty good grasp of the situation at hand. Your ideas are good, if perhaps a bit difficult to implement in practice (and I would suggest not telling the stupid people to kill themeselves, lol.)

Your first paragraph harkens back to a bit of Aristotelian politics... rule of the intellectual elite... haha.

Guess I just never expected that from you.

[ignoramus]

I forgot nuclear disarmament and gay stuff.

In practice, I'm very tolerant of people of all sorts of intellectual backgrounds (I WORK AT 7-11). I don't think it's dumbness itself that bothers me, though. I think it's rudeness, ego, narrow-mindedness, and bad attitude. It just seems like people act like they understand everything they need to understand, and then when they come across something they don't understand, they reject it in favor of whatever worked for them before. It's the "everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten" mentality. Really, every day's a new grade level, but people flunk and hold themselves back day-in day-out.

So I guess certain dumb people I do enjoy. But anyone of any educational background could possibly be the type of "dumb" I refer to. Basically, I'd like to live on a cult island where people with new ideas aren't beaten to death and called fags, even if their new idea is having gay sex.

[princessdulla]

I think that all people should strive towards open-mindedness and tolerance, so long as it does not create adverse effects (i.e. well meaning liberals creating reverse racism or conservatives tolerating immoral business practices in the name of "free markets"). Morality is relative, but I think there are some points on which we can all agree.

Higher intelligence tends to lead to minds that are more open to different ideas, mostly because their brains can, well, "handle" more than the average person. They have a means of comparison for all ideologies, rather than accepting, as you mentioned, "whatever worked for them before". Although they may have the capacity to consider different ideas, there is no drive for learning or intellectual self-betterment, so no matter how you try they will not take your ideas into consideration.

Best we can do is make reasonable tolerance a social norm. Then it will be what "worked in the past" for everyone.

Don't see it happening any time soon though.

[skemop]

There's a certain ugliness and nastiness that comes with someone who is too dumb and lacking in creativity to see the joy, loveliness, humor, or horror in various things. I see this unpleasant, hideous nasty type of person everywhere, including convenience stores, university faculties, and the beach.

It makes me sad... Largely because this grotesque type of moron seems to make up a significant portion of the world's population.

[ignoramus]

In a way, it's also very encouraging to realize that so many people are morons. It's nice to know that whenever I'm having creative difficulties, there's no way in hell that toothless prick who always lies about soda refills could even come close to writing insightful long-form fiction.