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1 dragonfire1981  Thu, Jan 26, 2012 2:52:49pm

So simply put: Some people can't think for themselves?

2 Locker  Thu, Jan 26, 2012 3:09:28pm

Simply put: Some ideas and positions are so faulty and bad that the people who hold them must be complete morons.

3 Achilles Tang  Thu, Jan 26, 2012 3:40:24pm

Simply put: Duhh

4 Tigger2005  Thu, Jan 26, 2012 6:43:26pm

I'm not sure what to think of studies like this. The human mind can be bent and twisted into fantastic shapes. And often, smart people are better at twisting their minds than dumb people. They are able to come up with better pseudo-logical rationales for believing insane and evil things. Consider the Nazis. Sure, most of the rank-and-file Nazi brownshirts and stormtroopers were dumb-as-posts sheep and followers. But more than a few Nazi higher-ups were intelligent and even brilliant. Look at the way the seemingly decent architect Albert Speer, a man of near genius-level intelligence, was swept up into the twisted world of the Nazis and put his boundless energy and exceptional organizational skills to work overseeing a vast war economy based on slave labor. Rommel was another fairly decent, and brilliant, man who put himself in the service of a barbaric, bloodthirsty regime. No good thing these two men did can excuse the fact that they refused to see the evil in Hitler and Nazism (at least until it was much too late) and reject both utterly.


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