(August 13, 2015 at 3:47 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:(August 13, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I think you have a very strange idea of what it is to be "nice." When I have a guest in my house, I offer the person something to drink, and, usually, something to eat. Doing such things is nice. And doing such things does not entail believing my guests are perfect.
In my experience, I have found that stupidity is more often linked to cruelty than intelligence is.
We weren't talking about cruelty though. Let's not jump to extremes so fast. We were merely talking about being nice. I don't see though why you see this as such an important quality that it would be one of the only three you would chose everyone to have enhanced through pharmaceutical means.
Viruses are not pharmaceuticals, but we need not worry about that. Being nice is important because otherwise murderers and other bad people will just be made more effectively bad by improving their intelligence and reasonableness. Intelligence gives someone more possibilities, and in the case of a bad person, that is a bad thing. A bad person can fuck you over more effectively if he is intelligent than if he is too stupid to be able to figure out how to fuck you over so effectively.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
