you feel _____ safe when expressing your most controversial or edgy opinions to a stranger who's extremely intelligent, compared to expressing them to an average joe stranger?
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Truly extremely intelligent people are not inhabiting the same world as regular people. You have no idea how such a stranger is going to react.
Average people are more predictable.
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Hypothesis: you’re more likely to consider people who agree with you to be highly intelligent.
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Intelligent people are more likely to consider opinions to be part of a realm of possibilities, & the simple expression of an opinion does not equate to total profession of that opinion. If you found your way to the the opinion rationally, it's comprehensible, an argument
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The very top rung is quite different from virtually everyone below them, here.
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the same because being able to express your controversial opinions has more to do with how confidently you feel you can defend your view while being open to new arguments rather than the audience imho
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