Rants from an gamer

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

That's true, but it's hard to see what could be better.

Yeah.  Your original thought would be some sort of proportional voting based on intellegence but this has a few issues.

1) The first being, that inellegence doesn't actually correlate with good politics that well... or anything.  Intellegence actually seems to be more of a "requriement" then a straight up "power level."  (Freaknomics has a good chapter on this... or was it one of the Malcolm gladwell books...)

 

2) Even if you did have some sort of "Intellegence quota."  I mean, some people are just naturally smarter then others.   It's not really there fault... a lot of people even if they try can't get a lot of stuff.  


Really too, a world where the dumb are picked on instead of the smart would actually be worse.  I mean, smart people have the advantage of "One day i'll be your boss!"

If dumb people get picked on... what relief do they have?  One day i'll... be serving you at mcdonalds and spit in your food?

We don't need to favor smart over dumb or any race. We just need to favor practical over impractical. There are plenty of dumb people who can be practical and are open to such ideas. There are also a lot of intelligent people who are impractical.

Now before you ask how we define what practicality is, just set is as the greatest reduction of misery for the greatest number of people.