Re: Intelligent People Do not Make Better Ethical Decisions
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This is my own thread based on Sklansky's most recent post about various religions effecting someone's ability to reason.
I pointed out that most of the horrible crimes such as the Holocaust, Slavery, various genocides and Christ's murder were legal and meticulously planned in many cases by the intelligentsia of the day.
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...you seem to be inferring that intelligience and religiousness are mutually exclusive. I do not think this is the case. I think that the people who planned and perpetrated those acts were not without religion and they were very intelligient. If I was looking for a horrendous act to use as an example, I would look for something planned and perpetrated by agnostics or atheists. Then I could note the defect of agnostics/atheists in making ethical decisions and know that the defect didn't come from religious ideas but instead from a merely intelligent source...
You are right about GWBasic though. He could not be where he is without the help of intelligient people.
J
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