>When lots of intelligent people argue for X, and X makes no sense at all for you, you should ponder with some real seriousness that perhaps N intelligent peopl

>When lots of intelligent people argue for X, and X makes no sense at all for you, you should ponder with some real seriousness that perhaps N intelligent people are not insane, but, instead, you are missing something. Intelligence is just the ability to precisely handle complex intellectual structures. It doesn't make those structures meaningful or accurate. What's that quote again? Ah, googling found it. “I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”