(February 25, 2014 at 10:11 am)EgoRaptor Wrote: No, because highly intelligent people often suffer from mental illness. It is much better to have a society of mentally ill geniuses than a society of mentally healthy imbeciles.
You're creating a false dichotomy(and also assuming that you would even make the cut for intelligence) in order to keep yourself in the pool. Mental illness is rare enough to easily weed out and still have plenty of healthy, intelligent DNA to go around.
No one needs your seed.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell