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In reply to the discussion: Stochastic terrorism [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)should decide who qualifies as stupid and unworthy of their rights, no? How about unworthy of life?
Because when a minority defining itself as the elite with superior qualities decides the majority are too stupid or otherwise unqualified for rights, the resulting rule is always wise and just, and not at all self-interested.
It's worked out wonderfully throughout history, no?
Honestly, I think your post is, indeed, evidence of IQ rates falling... somewhere, anyway.
Tangential, but just to highlight the awesome ignorance of what you wrote:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/26/1245231/are-we-getting-smarter-rising-iq-scores-in-the-twenty-first-century
(IQ rates basically measure not intelligence but conformity to organized education and have been rising constantly, but anyway... intelligence, whatever that is, remains pretty much where it has always been, the species being biologically the same through the millennia...)