What do you think draws people toward hostility or conflict instead of conversation?

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“Thus, Scottish are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, English are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Irish are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Welsh are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Germans are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, French are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Australians are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, New Zealanders are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Danes are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Austrians are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Spaniards are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

“Thus, Portuguese are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

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“Thus, humans are trained, from youth, to hate “high-IQ” and perceive it as a threat.”

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I would suggest that this:

Is a much more relevant test when assessing why individuals react in a confrontational manner. The IQ test measures problem solving skills, almost exclusively, and is much less relevant.

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Actually thinking is thinking and feeling is feeling. They are not one and the same. Though I can see how an individual who exclusively, or even primarily, forms their beliefs/opinions via feeling might believe that they are one and the same. Such individuals would have never developed solid critical thinking skills.

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You are advocating that so called ‘well reads’ believe that IQ plays the most critical role in determining how well people fare in life. Maybe they do.

Whereas I bet any ‘street smart’ would put forward the fact that in their circumstances EQ is even more important for them to survive and in fact the high IQ may very well have difficulty in surviving in a deprived environment.
The street wise individual has the adaptability and an “intuitive sense of their immediate environment” fostered mainly out of sheer survival.

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NGL you had me in the first half… I thought we concluded this matter before? Your Commie card-carrying privileges were/are revoked when you got your Escalade. And a second time when you hired Mexican labor to do your contracting jobs!? Tsk tsk Promy boy! I don’t want to hear ‘Marx’ outchyo mouf until your roll your Esc into the bottom of the Everglades…!

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Except this part is completely false… Germans value high-IQ very much, and probably the most out of the European races (which is why they’ve dominated tech advancement for centuries).

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Low-IQs need “EQ” as a cope. It’s like a weak or small man being comedic and funny, as a cope for his inferior stature, or being money-hungry using money as a cope. People cope in many ways, stupid people especially.

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Regardless, high IQ score is not indicative, in any way whatsoever, that someone will be less confrontational in an argument than anyone else. If you had said “less likely to argue over stupid shit”, then I might have agreed with you, but once again, absolutely not empirically the case, I’ve heard extremely smart people argue over the dumbest shit imaginable.

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I agree that it’s mainly due to low IQ.. to constantly argue and harass, is to constantly seek that which One does not know but wishes to know.

Case in point.. :backhand_index_pointing_down:t3:

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Are “heated arguments” the same as hostility, conflict, and Ad Homs?? Again, in my experience, only high-IQ people can reliably produce “productive arguments”, despite them being “heated”.

Maybe there’s another factor to consider: Civility and Manners. Maybe even civil and well-mannered Morons can have productive arguments?

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This is true. Just humans being humans I guess. It just feels very counterproductive and unsatisfying for all parties when coversations turn sour.

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It’s quite ironic. I know someone with a high IQ score, very high. They never get into heated arguments, in fact they rarely argue at all.

They are autistic, which is something you otherwise use as a slur on this board. I’m now quite confused by your stance on that.

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I’m just using my experience that I’ve learned the most, heated debates or civil, from other high-IQs. Low-IQs can provide some insights and good points, from time to time, but not the brunt of learning, wisdom, or philosophy.

Consider why college and university Professors are smart and high-IQ…

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It is because you are autistic, that you have that perspective. He doesn’t have a “stance” on autism.

For example, Boris was posting in Russian and then Boris gave a detailed explanation why he posts in Russian, then Real Un said “stop being autistic” as a joke. Then Ichythus litterally threatens to kill him and other people, for using the word autistic in a condescending way, which is the most autistic possible way to react to this.

This is one form of autism but isn’t the only form.

Autism is a form of tunnel vision or narrow vision. It is the opposite of holistic.

The human eye sees only the exact center of vision in focus, and the rest is blurry. Autism, metaphorically, would be the center focus of the human eye, while normie would be the whole eye vision, but more blurry.

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