One of the great moral failures of Western civilization is putting the intellect on such a pedestal, we have to pretend monsters are stupid.
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The automatic assumption when someone does something base, mean, cruel or outright evil is they must be an idiot.
Thanks, Plato.
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We're too hip to believe in evil. So when someone acts all evil 'n' shit, we know it's cause they're stoopid.
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And auto ascribing material success with the weight of credibility unless proven otherwise. The auto ascribing is the failure.
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I barely encountered that for the first 20 or so years of my life, but I see what you mean. In Norway, no special consideration for wealth.
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