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>I can say that tolerance requires a capability for abstraction that is not intuitive to everyone there's some pretty interesting research related to this done

>I can say that tolerance requires a capability for abstraction that is not intuitive to everyone there's some pretty interesting research related to this done with criminals. At lower levels of IQ they aren't capable of hypotheticals like "how do you think the person felt when you robbed them" or "how do you think the mother of the person you killed felt about that". Which raises the question of how much they can even be held accountable for their actions to some degree Empathy requires a certain level of intelligence, children don't have the cognitive ability for it until they are a few years old and there are many "normal" adults walking around with IQ in a similar range as those children. High IQ psychopaths are interesting because they seem to be able to overrule most criminal behavior despite also not feeling empathy, they probably just run some sort of cost-benefit analysis that simulates empathy

generalizations 4y ago
> Which raises the question of how much they can even be held accountable for their actions to some degree I think they can still be held accountable. They were told not to do a thing, and they did it.
- lmm 4y ago
  Telling the unintelligent they must blindly follow orders doesn't seem like a great strategy for society either.
  - Godel_unicode 4y ago
    Nobody is saying they have to do it blindly, given access to the internet they can learn as much as they want about the theory of why something is illegal. I don’t fully understand how clots are formed despite having read a number of papers about it, but I know I’m supposed to apply pressure to a cut.