(August 19, 2015 at 6:09 pm)abaris Wrote: I realize, the OP has been written several weeks ago - but what kind of fundamental idiot writes an email on his girlfriends computer to another woman?
One who is likely not smart enough to be able to keep his girlfriend.
I have found that stupid often goes with immoral. Much more often than some people like to think, as the old movie trope of the evil genius is still popular in such fiction today. Among the people I have personally known in real life, the smartest tend to be among the most moral. A common example of a fool being immoral is one of those Christians who lie for Jesus.
Apparently, there has been some research on this type of thing:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/201...6.abstract
It is not quite what I had in mind, but racism is more common among stupid people, and so that is one immoral thing that can be avoided through intelligence. Indeed, many forms of bigotry are the result of poor thinking, and that, again, suggests that there may be some causal correlation between a lack of intelligence and certain kinds of immorality.
Of course, being intelligent does not necessitate moral behavior.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
