Low-time preference is a high intelligence trait.
One of the liberal misconceptions is that people act badly because they are suffering rather than concluding that many people suffer because they act badly. I've met plenty of people who will suffer stoically, and don't misbehave no matter what life throws at them.
A lot of behavioral traits can be tied to the genetic predisposition for intelligence. Understanding that most Africans generically have less developed frontal lobes is not the same as believing that all Africans are this way. If you meet enough Africans you're going to meet a few on the right tail of the bell curve. While they bely the average, their existence doesn't invalidate the fact that most are of lower intelligence.
Refusing to acknowledge these genetic differences doesn't make one a better person and leads to policy decisions that are harmful to civilized society.
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I agree with everything you're saying. I was just giving additional context for my thoughts. It appears you agree with me on all my points. I don't see policy problems as coming largely from erroneously treating groups as equal though so much as from erroneously believing in the state and disbelieving in personal responsibility. I am also skeptical of the connection between IQ and time preference, but I don't care, it's not like I am trying to make any of the claims you are saying we need to avoid. We agree on all of the core essentials.
I especially like your emphasis that suffering does not just necessitate crime or evil or perpetual strife. I completely agree that SO much discourse, especially woke discourse, but pervading "liberal" and normie discourse too, carries this disgusting reversal of cause and effect. Virtue causes flourishing. Vice causes strife. The social justice warriors put the cart before the horse and say that strife causes vice. Another sick lie that the envious like to push.
Word of advice, you might consider putting this well-reasoned, based understanding of individuals as against collectivism front and center in your dialogue, so that it is clear to people like me that you're a rational person and not just turning to the dark side of white nationalism or whatever the fuck. Precious few rational people will take the time to see past the n word and discover your nuanced thoughts on this. That being said, I did, so you don't have any pressing need to change.
Yes the word nigger, or any exactly combative statement, will shut a lot of people's brains down. They have an instant, conditioned response to it. This makes it a good litmus test to see who you're dealing with and if they're still fully conditioned by the liberal order or not.
*racially charged
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Yeah there's not a whole lot that shuts my brain down. I have other words like that. Like selfish. Or capitalist. Or "fuck democracy." Or "fuck you" lol! My battleground is moreso in those areas. Onward! 🫡
