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He's trying to make a tenuous leap to suggest that engineers are smart, smart people are sexually repressed, and sexually repressed people are more likely to be
by dandelany 17y ago
He's trying to make a tenuous leap to suggest that engineers are smart, smart people are sexually repressed, and sexually repressed people are more likely to be violent. I understand what he's saying, but I don't buy it. Claiming that terrorists' grievances are based in deeply-rooted sexual problems is juvenile, and doesn't respect the gravity or history of the situation, IMHO.
- gjm11 17y agoEspecially as (e.g.) there doesn't seem to be any similar terroristic tendency among physicists, who are also very smart (anecdotally I'd say: slightly smarter on average) and smart in broadly similar ways. (Note: "on average" means just that; I know some very, very smart engineers.)