It’s not really easy for us to tell who’s useful for society, even less so if you want to be even a little bit objective. If your metric is intelligence, that’s not a good one (depression, substance use disorder, and many other things that don’t make for a super happy or functional person are correlated with intelligence).
I’m not talking about intelligence. There’s lots of intelligent religious people. I’m talking about people killing themselves because their religious leaders want them to pray in 120° heat in the sun. Unless you’re being forced, if you willingly doing that, you’re an idiot.
That’s fair, sorry. There’s going to be unintended consequences if agreeable, optimistic people are suddenly gone from the population, which the original removed comment starting this thread suggested wasn’t an issue.
It’s not really easy for us to tell who’s useful for society, even less so if you want to be even a little bit objective. If your metric is intelligence, that’s not a good one (depression, substance use disorder, and many other things that don’t make for a super happy or functional person are correlated with intelligence).
I’m not talking about intelligence. There’s lots of intelligent religious people. I’m talking about people killing themselves because their religious leaders want them to pray in 120° heat in the sun. Unless you’re being forced, if you willingly doing that, you’re an idiot.
There’s going to be unintended consequences if you intentionally get rid of agreeable, optimistic people.
When did I ever say I wanted to intentionally get rid of people?
That’s fair, sorry. There’s going to be unintended consequences if agreeable, optimistic people are suddenly gone from the population, which the original removed comment starting this thread suggested wasn’t an issue.