Erik this is some bull, how the hell can this insanity infect societies even when they call it out in other culture's?! How can they be so arrogant to say it was bad in the Babylonians, Roman Republic, Egyptians, Greeks etc, yet they are right and they are better..... FFS, religion is a scary method of control !!

I’m stealing that line btw

@@LegioDecemGJCAESAR more like a dangerous poison. And they wonder: u say you don't believe my God even is real yet spend such time hating and caring about it so much.

Irony.

+Tino Mollinedo Wi.

That's what we are, animals. We're all stupid, at least in comparison to the universe. We're all susceptible to various shortcomings of all magnitudes in our minds. What separates a living thing from a nonliving thing, say a rock and a rabbit? A complexity that allows for emotions, a desire. A momentum to keep going. Like how it all started in the beginning. Think about what you are. What you do. All you do is think about sex, food, sleep and various other things that satisfy your desires. It's all momentum. Emotions are ridiculous. We're ridiculous.

+Jacob Elok And yet we've overcome these problems and built a powerful, technologically advanced, thriving civilization. We aren't perfect of course but we have done alot of incredible things.

Jacob Elok We are still the most advanced civilization so far.

Irish Jester Most of it required us to come together to work toward a common goal, yes people are stubborn in thier beliefs but when push comes to shove humanity is a force of nature.

Welcome to the club. We've been waiting for you. Now there are 6 of us.

but maybe you're just being plagued by confirmation bias ;)

For me it's actually the opposite effect

We all came from our mothers

Erudite observation! Thank you!

MumblingMickey What psychologist have done is to give a plausible explain to why dump people are dumb. That is the first step; to identify a cause. Next step is to come up with a method, a "cure", to address the issue. However, a cure implies someone to cure. We would needs to test everyone and rate them, and if someone falls below a certain (arbitrary?) measurement they would need to be "cured". The question is; do we want to do this, put labels on each other, with otherwise perfectly normal people? Have we not already done this kind of mistake before?

+jomen112 I don't know, those slave owners were perfectly normal people too. Why do we need to label them? Maybe it's because we have to decide what we will allow in our society.

jomen112 Well I think left to its own nature will sort the issue out one way or the other... the real question is this "If nature starts opting for a trail of bodies....can we allow that to continue and just shrug it off with the star trek prime directive that one should not intercede?" For sure this century will be a real test for humanity. Its the century where we end up sharing our world eventually with an intelligence greater than ours that is supposedly everyone's friend (AI) ...yet somehow I get the feeling it will be friends with some people more than others. Assuming it comes to the party as a friend and doesn't instead gatecrash with its own friends and boot forty shades of shit from the rest of us! (also a concern)... I think we've all been to parties like that. From history I think by now we should have learned that anyone arriving with a faster, better, more efficient technology will use that technology to remove absolutely everyone thats in the bloody way. To my mind that would be about 90% of the population. The price of NOT evaluating folks for such a cure could be the worst thing to do... but you can be sure they will select themselves for no cure anyway...so its a moot point. Unfortunately we NEED people to believe things... even utterly untrue things... from such folks we have created civilization. Because we can interject and get them to believe anything... Steve Jobs did not create the iPhone... instead scientists discovered it was possible, engineers designed it, and kids in Chinese sweat shops built it... Jobs just told them all what to do! Without such folks doing all the downstairs for dancing work we'd be sitting in caves all agreeing that the rocks can be banged together to make fire, that its possible and logical and all looking around for someone to do that for us! One things for sure though... the absence of information is rarely a good thing...whether you choose to use it or not. And being human we tend to favor using things...even things we don't understand the implications of...and even things we DO understand the implications of, and even when we know the implications are not good!

*Well if that was the case then its unlikely this can ever be addressed utilising simple education or philosophy in schools etc... ... after all X percentage of the population will always favour first hand data over accurate data... they are hardwired to do so... or at least theres a strong preference to do so....* Isn't this like saying that, since anger confers an advantage we must accept all irrational behavior it stimulates? As for the "preaching" comment, that some people have a stronger need for closure than others doesn't mean that they can't be made aware of their bias, just that it will be more difficult than others. It's the same way some people have a harder time regulating their behavior in the presence of distracting emotion. It's virtually impossible for someone to be beyond the point where education is useless and those who are hardest to reach are the ones who need it most.

Even if there is, it's generally understood that genetics allows for potentials that are ultimately influenced by external factors. People put way too much stock into genetics as being an absolute definition of a person.