Number 5 will surprise you!

People fuck children. The US has a president who intimately knows a lot of people who literally fuck children.
Fucking children is socially acceptable right now if you are part of the right circle.
But there are also a lot of people who fuck children without knowing the US president or the (conveniently deceased) Jeffrey Epstein. They aren’t in that circle and for them, it’s not socially acceptable to fuck children. Yet they still do it.
When the human sex drive is opposed by social norms, usually the sex drive wins one way or the other. Most people with forbidden fetishes are able to satisfy the drive without actually using the real thing. But there were always some for whom that didn’t work.

I am pretty sure, slave owners were able to come up with some excuse for fucking their slaves after their horniness raised high enough over the years. And when post-nut clarity set in, they confessed to a priest and were forgiven by god - so it was all fine anyway.

Yeah, but they can create the conditions where altruism is a non beneficial trait that ultimately leads to your untimely end.

Then I will end, with the world in a better place than when I began.

The goal isn’t for them to personally intervene in people’s lives, just to create the conditions that are most desirable to maintain their own position.

And in doing so they render themselves utterly powerless to stop people like me from doing good.

That’s why they’ve spent decades attacking the kindness of the working class. Turning the idea of charity into an insult, Christianity into prosperity Gospel, and being neighborly into an immigrant sympathizer. They want the lower class to idolize the same kind of disregard for empathy that made them rich to begin with.

You’re dead on about that. However, I also think this creates prime conditions for people who never had any intention of being good people to say “gee now I can’t be a good person, how terrible!” Well fuck that, I’m gonna do it anyway and laugh at the ultrarich who think their money and influence can accomplish anything they wish.

I often wonder if our broken and fucked up capitalistic world wouldn’t do a complete backflip into the dirt once all that wealth poured out into the hands of common folk.

Like, it only “”“works”“” if the system itself is corrupt. The utilities, medicines and food the currency pays for are just as they are, there isn’t more because people have more money to buy it. Wouldn’t the result be everything inflating in price to insane heights?

I’m not justifying billionares, hell no, just making sure all the people who want the dam to break know what to do with the water.

Yeah I have a rational and structure to whom I hate, that’s called a philosophy. Sure mine may be rather notable in modernity for its archaicism and weird reference points, but I don’t particularly care since if my ideology was followed fascists wouldn’t be threatening the American project so thoroughly. Live and let live only works when the other person also respects the truce.

If the Israelis only targeted directly hostile entities and didn’t intentionally go out of their way to create new ones they wouldn’t be of note. But they can’t they’re too obsessed with so called Lebensraum, how I hope to see their cities sacked and a new diaspora created.

I wish I was on a warpath, but I am not at liberty to take such actions sadly. Too many folks don’t have enough hate in their hearts towards the preacher, the politician, and the businessman. There ain’t a thing that you or anyone else could say to me to assuage my want to burn and salt the earth.

Your ability to contrive bullshit and keep buying that bullshit, your willingness to terminate thoughts, your curiosity, and your ability to see why things matter and do shit like extend the scale of the self or take differing perspectives are all directly functions of various cognitive and psychological factors often called ‘intelligence’.

But all of that can still end in a racist worldview, depending on what directions you take your train of thought and what conclusions you find most plausible. That’s the old “FBI Crime Statistics” and “Social Darwinism” / “Bell Curve” gambit. And it works on a large number of proven intellectuals. FFS, James Watson - one of the pioneers of modern genetics - is a frothing racist. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is a Christian Nationalist. Being “smart” isn’t a panacea for being gullible.

At some point, “intelligent” people are more vulnerable to misinformation than their “dumb” peers, because they have more experience absorbing and applying advanced theories and philosophies without fully grasping how they work. The more advanced you get in any scientific field, the more you’re forced to accept on faith because you recognize you simply don’t have the time or the energy to delve down every academic rabbit hole. The end result is a certain scholastic dogma that people cling to because they simply accept prior generations have done the leg-work.

Present information in the pastiche of academia and you can reliably delude academics and scholars up front. Argue convincingly with the right jargon, present walls of data with citations and graphics, and follow the superficial mannerisms of trustworthy peers. You’ll catch lots of people who have trained themselves to correlate the structure of the presentation as inherently trustworthy.

By contrast, folks who aren’t familiar or experienced with a certain scholarly formulation won’t be fooled simply because they don’t know how to absorb the information or recognize the display as a trustworthy format.

No need to be hostile. I don’t hear any direct counter arguments here other than you don’t agree with my claim. I am simply basing my opinion on the fact that I have not seen any evidence of there being a documented correlation, and also because history is full of very intelligent people being very racist and pro slavery.