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Don't 'Respect the Rights' of ANYone...



Put this in your pipe and smoke it this Canadian Thanksgiving weekend:

DON'T 'RESPECT THE RIGHTS' OF ANYONE...

...who is stupid enough to allow their hard Wired feelings for leaning this way or that to be manipulated by corporations into supporting immoral and deadly profit-making at the expense of innocent people's lives. I don't.

I am not a 'leftie' or a 'rightie'. I am a 'centrist' who respects the fact that many people cannot help or control the fact that they were born with brains that are hard wired to lean one way or the other. I understand that, even if these folks have quite high IQ's, that it is VERY difficult to stop feeling emotionally connected to your 'political hard wiring' and search for simple answers to support the 'way you feel' versus doing the very tough thing and listen to people from the other side and really evaluate the smartest and most complicated solutions/theories/arguments that they postulate.

You have to have a lot of in-born curiousity (a strong marker for high IQ) to 'do the heavy lifting' required of people who want to support what is really best for the majority of your fellow citizens, versus simply going along with what makes your brain feel most self-satisfied. If you can't provide a fact-based explanation for your answer to a social issue, but rather answer with a meme or placard slogan that makes you 'feel right' and then, when pressed for a more detailed rationale for why you 'believe' that this or that is the right way for us all to go, respond with "I don't know, I just FEEL STRONGLY about it." then you don't actually have an argument, what you have is 'a feeling' (and therefore get angry and defensive about).

It's human nature to seek out the most simple explanations ('sound bites') for complex social problems that happen to support each of our brain's 'hard wiring' and then shout that simple answer at the top of our lungs to anyone who doesn't automatically side with 'our side'. This tendency for tribalism is how our species beat out the competition and rose to become the 6th global extinction force. The majority of us don't willingly desire change if the old ways are not obviously putting our tribe at risk (more on that topic from me here: http://bit.ly/2wEKs9V ). When things ARE going wrong, however, we must turn to the most clever and willing to change individuals among us and ask what might be smart for us all to do next -- what to CHANGE. We need to respect (listen to) the smartest, most change-loving individuals among us to find the best way forward.  

This latter point is what has gradually been eroded away by 'political correctness' in the Developed World.  Liberalism has led us to the point that we cannot openly discuss the fact that IQ scores vary widely by race.  We cannot point out that religions, whether ancient or newly invented, whether cults of personality like Islam ("Mohammedism"), or rooted in pagan stories of old (Christianity), have some really bad ideas in them that simply aren't so great for anyone who isn't a member of "the norm".  What "PC" has led to is where we are now, no longer trusting things to the experts, but rather to our hard wired emotional impulses AND FEELING SELF-RIGHTEOUS about trusting irrational reactions over facts. 

There is only one way that democracies thrive, and that is when smart, educated, experienced people's solutions are valued over those of knee-jerk populists.   Seriously.  Every day in every way.  We cannot be ruled by opinions and feelings, but only by well-considered good ideas from smart cookies.  Ben Shapiro's ideas are deeply coloured by the fact that he grew up in and is immersed in a very conservative religious world (and is clearly hard wired for Conservatism), but at least the guy can articulate the well-reasoned WHY's behind each of his recommendations.  The same thing can be said of Noam Chomsky who is CLEARLY hard wired for Liberalism.  These stalwarts of public intellectualism need to be listened to openly and critically and balanced against each other by the centrists who need to be in charge in order to prevent the rest of us from making really dumb decisions.

If you aren't smart enough to figure out that a bunch of rich people are buying your democracy by funneling UNLIMITED money to that peculiar personality type who are drawn to the power and fame that comes from running for office, then you don't deserve respect. If you are dumb enough to believe that 'rights' are not about what is good for the majority, but rather what is good for profit-making corporations (and that these 'rights' are actually IMMORAL as they're BAD for the majority -- lets take gun deaths in the US versus any other country in the world as an example), then you support something evil and I don't respect you.

If you aren't smart enough to be able to put 2 and 2 together and see that there is an escalating problem, then you are not deserving of any 'respect', you ARE worthy of criticism and ridicule because you support BAD IDEAS that, in the public forum under the glare of critique, are clearly nonsensical.

So-called 'rights' are given and taken away as societies mature and evolve. The 'right' to beat wives was reviewed over time in most of the world and was taken away in decent modern societies. The 'right' to produce children and then use them as free labour, or sell them as sex slaves, was examined, considered and taken away in every country populated by a majority of decent voters worldwide. The 'right' to own weapons of mass destruction was reviewed in places like Australia, Canada and the UK and was taken away once the weaponry advanced to the point that it was clearly not a good idea to make available to the small percentage of nut jobs who mingle among us.

So if you take a look at an issue and, using your own brain power, can weigh it and see that, on balance, it is just not a good thing for the MAJORITY of a society, but rather is clearly a manipulation of not-so-smart people's emotions by a profit driven, money-hoarding few, then do not offer respect to people who support evil. Offer them sympathy for being too stupid to figure out they're being used to their own disadvantage. Be kind to their dumb asses and don't shout things that are intended to make them feel badly about themselves, but do point out that their hard wired "opinions" (innate emotional responses) are in no measure equal, or even worthy of discussion, versus facts proven through the scientific method of evaluation.

NRA supporters in the US have only one argument, and it isn't great: "I like guns!" That's it. For the details force yourself to watch Jim Jefferies ( https://vimeo.com/219338338 ). He says everything that needs to be said.

And offer thanksgiving to your parents for having bestowed sufficient IQ upon you. ;-)


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