It’s not like someone behaves a certain way, then obtains a high IQ, and begins behaving differently. — Pinprick
The room grew silent. I cursed myself for losing control and creating a scene. I tried not to look at the boy as I paid my check and walked out without touching my food. I felt ashamed for both of us.
How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes-how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. It infuriated me to think that not too long ago I, like this boy, had foolishly played the clown.
And I had almost forgotten.
I'd hidden the picture of the old Charlie Gordon from myself because now that I was intelligent it was something that had to be pushed out of my mind. But today in looking at that boy, for the first time I saw what I had been. I was just like him!
Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined with them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all. — Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
I'm thinking that, setting aside thought as a kind of behaviour, that thinking and behaviour are different and sometimes in some ways inform each other. So. Determines? No.Behavior determines thought, no? — Shawn
Which reduces to, does the ability to think influence what may be thought, and differences in that ability effect what may be thought.does super-intelligence determine future thought?" — Shawn
It seems so that gifted individuals find best jobs, and many of them tend to be pictured as "psychopaths", "sociopaths". But being gifted has nothing to do with choosing right or wrong in all ethical acts, ethical "goodness" only applies to the skill-set that requires you to complete your job task.
You might have "good work" -ethics, but bad in other categories of ethics. — batsushi7
How does having a higher IQ alter or modify one's behavior?
Seemingly a simple question, hmm. — Shawn
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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