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Adding to your point, the thing that is often overlooked is that those people who are unable to exercise informed judgement are also a huge burden on society as
by finid 10y ago
Adding to your point, the thing that is often overlooked is that those people who are unable to exercise informed judgement are also a huge burden on society as a whole.
Hmm, that, and the rest of your comment, seems to be suggesting that those people are expendable. That society is better of without them.
- omginternets 10y agoHow on earth did you get that impression? The point is that letting people make bad decisions is not "just" bad for them -- it's bad for society as a whole.
- anigbrowl 10y agoNobody said they were expendable, just that their low intelligence* and the resulting poor choices cost the smarter people a fortune (because of our moral and legal obligation to take care of them despite the entirely predictable nature of their morbidity). If you're not willing to acknowledge that fact then you've abandoned reality for ideology and are engaged in politics instead of science. * which term I am using as a catch-all for everything from cognitive ability to critical thought skills to quality of information sources, rather than as a proxy for IQ.