Quote: (05-12-2019 12:45 AM)Ouroboros Wrote:
Intelligence is important up to a point. I'm not sure that drinking and smoking have much to with intelligence, though. Bad habits are more a product of psychological problems like depression, a compulsive-addictive personality, low self-control and/or bad parental/peer influence.
What I mean by that is bad health and nutrition habits in the mother can cause birth defects - both visible and invisible. Almost all conditions deemed to be "genetic" by modern medicine are not caused by a "bad gene". They are harmful biochemical reactions in utero.
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Being too smart can isolate you and make it harder to conform to bullshit trends and beliefs that you need to at least fake in order to get ahead.
So true. It's hard to discuss reality with someone who is programmed by government school, Ph.D holders, the TV, the History Channel, the American Medical Association, the Republican-Democrat Party, etc.