Virus that makes humans more stupid.

Raggamuffin wrote:So what afflicts the far left then? Another kind of algae virus perhaps?

Raggamuffin wrote:So what afflicts the far left then? Another kind of algae virus perhaps?

There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.

veya_victaous wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:So what afflicts the far left then? Another kind of algae virus perhaps?

Compassion and intelligence are the afflictions of the left

Raggamuffin wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:So what afflicts the far left then? Another kind of algae virus perhaps?

Compassion and intelligence are the afflictions of the left

Hmmmm, not sure about the intelligence, and the compassion is usually false.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Hmmmm, not sure about the intelligence, and the compassion is usually false.

OK, here's something I've been wondering lately -- because conservatives say that a lot about us lefties -- how can you be so sure that someone else's compassion is false?

I mean, have you seen liberals approach homeless people with a bill in their hand saying "Here, have some money," and then pull it away at the last second, yelling "Psych!" and laughing?

Teeming within your body alone are trillions of microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists—that make up 90 percent of all the cells in your body. You are more them, than you are you. In fact, there’s not really a you. Your body is more of an ecosystem than a discrete organism. The sum effect of this fact is unnerving: In a way, you are not one thing, but a codependent mass of countless organisms, moving in unison toward shared goals. Through hundreds of thousands of years of co-evolution within this host-microbe habitat, these organisms have developed a complex scheme of cat-and-mouse survival strategies that affect the overall system.

So then: Whenever you do something, whenever you make one of the myriad, inane daily choices that ultimately define who you are, who is it making the decision? You? Or is it them?

Raggamuffin wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:
Compassion and intelligence are the afflictions of the left

Hmmmm, not sure about the intelligence, and the compassion is usually false.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Hmmmm, not sure about the intelligence, and the compassion is usually false.

OK, here's something I've been wondering lately -- because conservatives say that a lot about us lefties -- how can you be so sure that someone else's compassion is false?

I mean, have you seen liberals approach homeless people with a bill in their hand saying "Here, have some money," and then pull it away at the last second, yelling "Psych!" and laughing?

Tommy Monk wrote:Spoken like a true left wing fascist ....

All dissent and opposing views must be eliminated!

Psychology Today wrote:Conservatism as a Mental Illness
Republican pols have recently exhibited 10 telltale signs of mental illness.
Published on June 12, 2012 by Barry X. Kuhle, Ph.D. in Evolutionary Entertainment

n Creationism as a Mental Illness, Robert Rowland Smith argues that creationists exhibit several signs of mental illness including denial, psychosis, and inability to grasp irony.

The specter of mental illness does indeed loom large over creationists, but they are not alone. Signs of psychopathology can also be seen among their political bedfellows, conservative politicians, especially when you consider a wide range of illness indicators. In his award-winning 2005 book, Dr. James Whitney Hicks discusses 50 signs of mental illness including denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness, and paranoia. Now I'm no clinician, but in my (admittedly biased brown) eyes it seems that prominent Republicans have evidenced each of these ten telltale signs of mental illness over the past year:

1) Denial: humans did not evolve;  Obama is not a native-born American Christian

2) Delusion: climate is not changing

3) Hallucination: God ordained me to be President

4) Disordered Thinking: being for small government that's huge in the bedroom;  being anti-contraception and anti-abortion

5) Anger: Newt Gingrich’s perpetual scowl

6) Anti-social Behavior: toward women, gays, minorities, anyone without an umbilical cord or trust fund

7) Sexual Preoccupation: a fervent compulsion to control when we can mate, with whom we can mate, and precisely how we are allowed to mate (which I lampoon in Why Do Politicians Want to Police Dick and Jane's Private Parts?)

8 ) Grandiosity: even Rick Santorum recognizes Gingrich’s “over the moon” grandiosity

9) General Oddness: Ron Paul

10) Paranoia: pretty much all of them, all of the time

Even (the not necessarily dumb) Pope Francis appears to recognize that “it is a serious illness, this of ideological [conservative] Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”

Regrettably, the Republican who least exhibits anti-science stances is the only one who (tongue-in-cheek) acknowledges his mental illness:



Until Jon Huntsman becomes the sane voice of his insane party, maybe "Republican Syndrome" should be added to the DSM-V so that crazy conservative pols can receive the mental health treatment they need. I bet "Obamacare" would even cover it.

Original Quill wrote:You are talking about secondary views.  Only lazy people engage in secondary conclusions.

A liberal is a thinking person.  He gets it right the first time.  He doesn't have to take his cues from signs...he's thought it through to the core.

victorisnotamused wrote:I always said the "liberal " was the most poisonous of creatures and here we have quill suggesting some sort of "final solution" for those whos views he doesnt like.

I suggest he take a hard look i9n the mirror for any signs of "that" moustache.....

Brasidas wrote:

Original Quill wrote:You are talking about secondary views.  Only lazy people engage in secondary conclusions.

A liberal is a thinking person.  He gets it right the first time.  He doesn't have to take his cues from signs...he's thought it through to the core.

Sorry but again it is a best guess based off how some people act or vote, where again your hypothesis does not factor in if a person renounces their faith or changes their political stance, hence why it is very shoddy to say the least to make such assumptions.

Original Quill wrote:

Brasidas wrote:


Sorry but again it is a best guess based off how some people act or vote, where again your hypothesis does not factor in if a person renounces their faith or changes their political stance, hence why it is very shoddy to say the least to make such assumptions.

How does a political party act to hate women, act to hate Africans, act to hate Hispanics, the largest growing demographic in the US, then start wars based upon lies, and act to destroy democracy itself...and then when they lose an election, say it's just a messaging problem.

No, I'm sorry...that's sheer, raw stupidity.  You guys got the same disease over there: austerity and the economy tanks.  Duh...