Intelligent people

Thank you :)

I know, it's frustrating to lose a debate. Those really come down to who is the better debater and not who's right. But it's usually easy to see if someone's looking for a debate instead of an actual conversation. Meaning they just want to win instead of trying to understand your perspective. In those cases I'd suggest just not to engage.
And yeah, humanity seems pretty depressing when you turn on the news, but just think of the filter they're using: Bad news is good news. While one genius hacked a bank or built a bomb a thousand others have saved lives and made an impact for the better. You just don't hear about them nearly as often.
As a matter of fact most geniuses work at apple stores. The world's a strange place.

@OP
People can be opinionated without having an high intelligence. For example you have an opinion about people who are more intelligent than you.

And winning a debate doesn't require a high intelligence. It does require information. They don't necessarily have a power. They have knowledge, which is power, true. But if you want to defend a cause read up on the subject. Get your information from multiple sides. And most of all be passionate.

And blaming people with high intelligence for unethical practices. I can understand why you would say that. How you could feel that. But singling out a minority for all the worlds problems is short sighted. And that is what you are doing. For example if you have received a single scam phone call, as I have received a few, each one had an Indian accent so if I was like you I could say "Oh, it's all Indians who are responsible for fraud." It's that kind of rash generalization that is wrong.

Good reply, I don't know why 2 people voted it down but I've cancelled one of them with an up vote

Hey I was into the whole 'correct thy neighbour' approach too but then I found that people stopped wanting to talk to me and it got old. I'm a dunce at STEM tbh, I wanted a superficial picture and I got one, and it did what I wanted it to, so I'm happy. Secondly... everyone else seems to be using 'intelligence' as a fuzzy term, so I will too. I charge 35 euro per hour for private English lessons. I won't correct their lexical errors for less.

As for intelligence vs efficiency... working with intelligence under its 'fuzzy' definition... yes, they're not directly correlated. What I had meant was this: more reflection = more mental effort per action = slower task completion = less efficient worker.

Well, we differ on anti-intellectualism I guess. I've been rejected from enough job interviews, seen enough jealousy, had people prejudge me as a 'snob' because of my university and had overt abuse directed at me... It's a reverse snobbery thing, in most cases I've seen.m

I understand them preferring to keep us dumb. But why would they prefer to keep us from killing ourselves? What would they gain from that? World overpopulation is a thing. There are more people than resources. Does everyone make do with less (ha ha, in an economy that relies on overconsumption to stay afloat? Not likely!!) or do we gently seek to expedite their departure a little more quickly? 'Whoops, there goes another one of our cherished employees. Ah dangit. Well, look on the bright side. At least we don't have to pay their long-term sick leave or tolerate their snivelling inefficiency any more... Let's get a bright shiny new one!' The world makes me sick. 'Yes, dearie, what was that? You're worried about your grandkids' inheritance? Well boy, do I have the solution for you. Just write 'do not resuscitate', and sign here.' I was visiting a wise, venerable old man from church in respite care and remarked in horror at a document in his portfolio with 'DNR' on it, he said it had something to do with the fact that he had said he didn't want a kidney transplant. I had known him as a stoic, he was a former naval officer and had the tattoo to match, but now he wept in front of me from his nursing home bed, his face yellow, tubes in his nose to help him breathe, 'I'm no use to anyone now. All I do is take. I might as well not be here.'. It was heartbreaking; this former pillar of the community. 'Don't want to pay for your kid? Well your family, community and the state don't want to either. Hello abortion.'. To this day I wonder what my little sister might have been like - I've decided it would have been a girl. It haunts me like an unresolved horror story.

It's as if people were as disposable as everything else. You actively have to believe that here's a kind of abstract value that individual human beings have in themselves, to avoid equating their life's worth with their economic viability. I'm not sure if many of the elites make the distinction between the two clear in practice, even if they do in theory. If these elites who are profiting from our disposability are the 'movers and shakers' of our culture, it's interesting to see that people are being encouraged to view abortion and euthanasia as means of 'empowerment' and that even suicide is undergoing a PR makeover...

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