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Cruelty/Sadism and intellectual prowess aren't mutually exclusive. From my high school days...I remember some really smart people who were atrocious bullies, an
by boeingUH60 4y ago
Cruelty/Sadism and intellectual prowess aren't mutually exclusive. From my high school days...I remember some really smart people who were atrocious bullies, and I mean extreme bullies.
- inglor_cz 4y agoFamously, Göring scored 138 and another prominent Nazi, Arthur Seyß-Inquart, 141 on their IQ tests when incarcerated in Nuremberg. Both were sentenced to death later. That said, their case shows the principle that high-IQ psychopathic people tend not to end up among common criminals. They find other, legal or "legal" (as in "it was legal in Nazi Germany") ways to satisfy their urges.
- throwaway5959 4y agoSee also: CEOs and politicians in general