Rants from an gamer

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Kasz216 said:

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?

Well, I was talking more about education (as in having information and accquiring cvertain skills like critical thinking), not necessarily intelligence (though I suppose you may not be able to accquire such skills if you aren't intelligent). Still, being educated is important, else you'll be easily manipulated by politicians and their PR teams in a democracy.