IDK, while I agree that the broad stupidity that we see today is more to do with poor education and not really genetics at all, there is something to be said that if you have stupid parents they’ll probably fail to educate you. Further, that stupid (uneducated) people do have kids more often than smart (educated) people. I wouldn’t say that’s a genetic issue though.
I feel torn because I do agree that we have a systemic problem, I’m a consequentialist not a virtue ethicist.
But on a raw emotional level as an educated person, I also can’t help but blame broad stupidity on our situation as something individuals largely indulge in. Where I find the average person to be intolerably incurious or unwilling to re-examine their own beliefs and I never really inter-personally want to interact with them.
IDK, while I agree that the broad stupidity that we see today is more to do with poor education and not really genetics at all, there is something to be said that if you have stupid parents they’ll probably fail to educate you. Further, that stupid (uneducated) people do have kids more often than smart (educated) people. I wouldn’t say that’s a genetic issue though.
I feel torn because I do agree that we have a systemic problem, I’m a consequentialist not a virtue ethicist.
But on a raw emotional level as an educated person, I also can’t help but blame broad stupidity on our situation as something individuals largely indulge in. Where I find the average person to be intolerably incurious or unwilling to re-examine their own beliefs and I never really inter-personally want to interact with them.