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:	post by pooooooop at 2010-03-06 00:43:59

this topic is a sack of puke. intelligence is just one of COUNTLESS parameters that drive societies in positive ways. work ethic, bravery, endurance, honesty, integrity, sense of adventure, "morality", and emotional intelligence, for example, are traits that any person (smart or dumb) can possess.

it's dumb to treat society as one linear brain-power continuum where one extreme is something like doctors, mathematicians, or programmers and the other end is full of cleaners and bus drivers and retards.

it's all the different and infinite combinations of the above-mentioned traits (being hard-working, being kind, being brave, being intelligent, being consistent, having follow-through, and the list goes on forever - you could include shit like "loves dogs", "is obsessed with telling stories to other people") which push humanity forward.

you don't need a big, pulsating brain to be the person who builds a daycare center. nor do you need a huge IQ to be the local ambulance driver, or firefighter, or even motivational speaker. conversely, an intelligent person is just as susceptible to stupid emotional problems and therefore susceptible to doing stupid shit like ANY other animal - how can you assume that mere cerebral intelligence will be able to override it more often in all circumstances? a goddamn ex-nuclear physicist is still capable of some really horrid shit if he's desperate enough.

just because you can pinpoint a gazillion examples of ghetto fights, stupid people killing each other, blah blah doesn't mean that our humanity is gonna be raised a notch without them. when we have only smart people above a certain IQ, there are still going to be stupid people at the bottom of THAT group and "smart" people at the top.

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