(August 13, 2015 at 11:00 pm)pool Wrote: EP, being smart doesn't mean one has to be brutally honest with each other,and in more that often instances,rude.We are not computers,we are humans with emotions.Being smart is about understanding the human nature and adapting so as to cause minimal conflict and lead a pleasant life.
Pyrrho, In my experience I'll take a smart bad person over a dumb bad person any day.Because smart is predictable whereas a dim person is very unpredictable and hence extremely dangerous.
Also,your idea about making everyone the of the same intelligence,compassionate,reasonable is a terrible idea.I'll tell you why,intelligent people like to work with what is the most complex to work with,in our case it would be the universe.So all the people of earth would want to be Physicists.
What about the service sectors?What about the banking sector?
Now suppose,since people were so smart that they automated the processes of these other sectors using robots.Can you imagine what would happen to the salary of the huge surplus of Physicists?Their value would go down and their salary too.Their intelligence wouldn't be celebrated and they would feel under appreciated for their efforts.So lets say some of them quit their job to go work in diners which aren't automated.Imagine an extremely intelligent individual working in a diner can you imagine the depression and unsatisfaction he'd feel?
There is a reason why every single one of us are different with different interests and so on.It is so that there could be a perfect balance.Some not particularly bright lights don't mind working tedious tasks,they might actually find happiness in it.While some bright bulbs constantly look for new things and find repetitive tasks tedious.
In a world where intelligence,compassion,reasonability etc are distributed uniformly,these values wouldn't exist anymore.Because it is necessary that an idiot exists so that a smart person can exist,and it is essential that an asshole exist so that a compassionate person can exist.
Your whole premise that there's an apriori balance to it all fails instantaneously. The universe is not organized in any way, only we view it as such - because that's how our brains work, we see patterns everywhere.
There is no problem with everyone being the same. If tomorrow everyone woke up with the same intellectual capacity, ideas and imaginations of the best of us, the world would be a far better place for it - there's no denying that. Humanity wouldn't just stop at being uniform. This is absurd. Just as we can't ever solve all of our problems, since there will always be new dillemas to confront, there won't ever be like-minded inviduals forever, not even if you somehow managed to get them to that point for a single moment - their paths would necessarily diverge again, since there are different experieces and all that.
The problems quoted by you are so superficial as to be laughable. Your whole worldview is too simple-minded for me to further address without doing it in jest.
