Why Liberals and Atheists are More Intelligent

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[–]Nombre27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What do you think about the article's claim, though - that there's a correlation between intelligence and embracing novel ideas?

I don't really care about quantifying that or any associations. Embracing novel ideas that have terrible consequences doesn't seem very smart, does it? Tests in a school classroom don't mean you're capable of passing tests in life.

I think enough is said that these seemingly intelligent people are more-than-happy to throw away their cultural inheritance. Seems like they're very stupid in practice.

They're the most selfish people that have ever lived. They don't care about the future of their children, their own communities, their inheritance, or really anything for that matter. They simply care about living the most today, hence why they don't care about accumulating debt that their children and grandchildren will have to pay off so that they can feel good about themselves in front of their friends. They live their life with an exceptionally high time preference because they're essentially spoiled children.

[–]cybitch[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Can you elaborate on what the consequences of specific liberal ideas are? I have my own views on this that don't quite match those on the American left either, but as a woman I could never agree with people who advocate for limiting my personal human rights back to what they used to be. I don't see this as being "selfish", but having a sense of self-preservation. Just because people who call themselves progressive aren't steering things into the direction I agree with doesn't mean we ought to go backwards. Maybe it's possible to come up with systems that are superior to those people had in the past. It's what tends to happen with technology, I don't see why political ideology couldn't work the same way.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you think we want to enslave women or something?

[–]cybitch[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sounds far-fetched, doesn't it. Have women had the vote since the beginning of time where you're from btw?

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

where you're from btw?

Belgium.