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[supergee]

According to the great philosopher Carlin, we have 3 classes of problems in this country:
1. the genuinely stupid
2. the full-of-shit, who sound stupid but aren't...
3. the fucking crazy"-- R.A. Wilson

womzilla has a post about whether the people who say, e.g., that Procter & Gamble is run by Satanists, are stupid, crazy, or lying. (Perhaps George W. Bush scored a trifecta.)

There are those who say we must not use the words stupid and crazy to describe people because it's "ableist." To me that's one of the few ideas that deserve the dread epithet politically correct (as opposed to, e.g., "Black people are no worse than white people," which is simply correct). What I value in people is their minds, which is why I consider people more valuable than animals (yes, even PETAmanes), so while everyone is valuable, I value mean people, stupid people, and boringly crazy people less than people without those traits.

Further thought: Ideally, one might treat the words stupid and crazy like racist, as qualities of ideas and actions, rather than people.

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[supergee]

You're probably right, just as I don't know anyone on the hereditarian side who thinks Einstein would have done as well if he'd been raised by wolves.