>They are not smart. Just stop telling yourself this about those people and stop respecting them. Stop it. lol is this the "any alien civilization far in advan

>They are not smart. Just stop telling yourself this about those people and stop respecting them. Stop it. lol is this the "any alien civilization far in advance of us will be peaceful" assumption? there are hordes of very very smart people (by any metric - iq, success, wealth) that either lack empathy or are straight up antipathetic. how about we stop valorizing smart people and start valorizing empathetic people instead?