Agents of the Atesh partisan movement from Russia's 385th Motorized Rifle Regiment and 345th Air Assault Regiment report a critical situation with personnel losses in the Russian army. — Ukrinform.
You would think that, but that is not how pain and suffering works and it is dangerous way to think.
Have you ever met a perfectly kind, intelligent person stuck in an abusive relationship? I have, many times unfortunately. Smart people are living lives stuck in burning houses they appear completely capable of leaving all over the world, right now, it should break your heart. This is one of the basic reasons empathy for others and ourselves is a necessary calling we ignore at our peril.
I think this will come down to us defining ‘intelligence’ in fundamentally different ways, so arguing over that term won’t get us anywhere. Smart isn’t a monolith, in that someone who is ‘intelligent’ will automatically make intelligent choices in all aspects of their life, instead intelligence tends to be siloed into particular areas. Sometimes intelligence just lets one rationalize themselves into incredibly self destructive positions. Those are the one I would consider ‘dumb’ in this scenario, not through lack of raw intelligence but in the embrace of stupid behaviors such as, as we say, staying inside the burning house while rationalizing that the fire might go out before it gets to them and burns them up.
Critically those self deluding people will argue themselves into behaviors that closely mimic those who simply cannot comprehend the situation at all, and as such their kindness and intelligence becomes a distinction without a difference.
You would think that, but that is not how pain and suffering works and it is dangerous way to think.
Have you ever met a perfectly kind, intelligent person stuck in an abusive relationship? I have, many times unfortunately. Smart people are living lives stuck in burning houses they appear completely capable of leaving all over the world, right now, it should break your heart. This is one of the basic reasons empathy for others and ourselves is a necessary calling we ignore at our peril.
I think this will come down to us defining ‘intelligence’ in fundamentally different ways, so arguing over that term won’t get us anywhere. Smart isn’t a monolith, in that someone who is ‘intelligent’ will automatically make intelligent choices in all aspects of their life, instead intelligence tends to be siloed into particular areas. Sometimes intelligence just lets one rationalize themselves into incredibly self destructive positions. Those are the one I would consider ‘dumb’ in this scenario, not through lack of raw intelligence but in the embrace of stupid behaviors such as, as we say, staying inside the burning house while rationalizing that the fire might go out before it gets to them and burns them up.
Critically those self deluding people will argue themselves into behaviors that closely mimic those who simply cannot comprehend the situation at all, and as such their kindness and intelligence becomes a distinction without a difference.