Mick-Cork wrote: ⤴Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:10 am No one knows everything, and personally I try to stay open to learning new stuff myself too.
Why is it that it is always others who are "stupid"? Nobody says about themselves or a loved one that they are stupid. It is always others. No mother says her son is stupid, it is always something like "he's been diagnosed with matho-geometric-spatial hyperwindyloop and that's why he needs special help". But he's not stupid.
In fact it is people who are not so superior who overestimate their capabilities while the truly superior do not.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger effect.
Most really intelligent and capable people I have met in life have been considerate and nice and did not go around berating people for being stupid.
The world is the way it is. If someone is born "stupid" there is nothing he can do about it. It is not like people wilfully and deliberately choose to be stupid. On the contrary, it is a limitation that they have to deal with every moment of their life.
It is inadmissible to make fun of a physical defect or characteristic but it is acceptable to say someone is stupid? It seems there is a fine line that must not be crossed. It is OK to make fun of the merely "stupid" but not if they have a recognized and named syndrome in which case they are untouchable.
Stupid, like other negative traits is always a characteristic of others, never ourselves.
All my life I have been more intellectual than most people around me. I liked to discuss, think, read, learn, understand about many things. Most people around me have other inclinations and that is fine and even necessary. The world would be a disaster if everybody was just looking at the ceiling pondering and thinking about the universe. Many people are lazy about physical work and, similarly, many people are lazy about mental work. That's just the way the world is.
A few geniuses, like Newton, have contributed immensely to human knowledge but the people who make life pleasant are those who are kind and understanding and helpful.
Powerful people and powerful countries say they want to help powerless people in powerless countries ad the way to go about it is to use force, start wars, etc. which cause untold misery in those who they are supposedly trying to help. In the meanwhile the real helpers are those charities who are helping the poor build, work, feed themselves, helping with health care, etc. Those are the real helpers that the world needs.
I have said it before and I'll repeat that in this forum the people who have been most knowledgeable and helpful in helping me solve my problems have always been the kindest and most patient. Not the arrogant know-it-alls.
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