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4:48pm August 10, 2014

binghsien:

Ah, here’s the thing.

You don’t have to be smart to be right. You don’t have to be smart to be good.

Being smart doesn’t make you right. Being smart doesn’t make you good.

Intelligence is like beauty: often admirable, but basically an arbitrary social construction that we nonetheless equate with being a good person.

If you read something, if you hear something, why should you care if the person who said it is smart? Care if the thing that they said was right, or was good. Or, hopefully, both.

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    #also #being right doesn’t make you good #being good doesn’t make you right
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    Look at Ted Bundy… Smart, evil, was difficult to catch. “With great power comes great responsibility”
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