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What does it take for you to determine someone has low intelligence? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me, it's a matter of how little they know the world around them and how things affect other things. Case and point, when voters thought that voting Trump in, that he would magically make egg prices go down. They're going down now, from what I saw shopping earlier today, but they weren't because of him.

Another example is how when shop lifters, when they shoplift, always think that they're harming who they call 'The Man' aka corporate operating the stores, directly. That's not entirely true and I know this having worked retail several times and currently.

Who you're hurting, really, is the store itself and those that work in it. The store pulls its own profits in by how many people shop there and part of that profit, is distributing to those who work there. When you're stealing from that store, you are actively harming that store's profits and in turn, harming those that work there.

The CEOs and executives are still raking in millions and they aren't above having to shut down stores over dipshit thieves which in turn, costs a lot of jobs in that store to absorb the profits to make up whatever costs.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kindness and empathy

Whenever I see or hear someone disregard or debase another person they don't know or understand without even trying to get to know anyone .... I immediately just think they are dumb

Whenever I see or hear someone treat someone else kindly without ever more knowing the other person .... then that person is smart in my books ..... all that can change if the receiver of kindness starts acting like an ass though.

It's the first impression .... if all I see is kindness and empathy at the beginning, I know I'm dealing with a bright person.

[–] helix@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean, that's emotional intelligence. You're dead right to value empathy highly, imo.

There's many types of intelligence. Many of them are useless to society if you don't also posess one or more of the others.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

Kindness and empathy is a sign that a person is able to think about the world more widely and intelligently ... it means they see past the terrible person or terrible things to try to understand why people, populations or things are they way they are. If you have an understanding or patience to try to honestly and objectively understand why things are the way they are ... the more likely you will have the tools and ideas to do something about those problems or those issues.

Someone without kindness or empathy impatiently makes simple assumptions of everything and everyone and immediately jumps to the easiest, simplest "solutions" that usually don't require any of their responsibility or inconvenience. They don't care about the source of the problem, they just want to get rid of the problem as quickly and as trouble free as possible, no matter the history, background or circumstances that caused the original problem. It's a great way of solving problems quickly ... but more often than not, this kind of mentality just repeats the same problems over and over again.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure "in your book," but then you're alienating yourself from other people by having an entirely different set of definitions for intelligence.

Or perhaps you're inadvertently conflating ethical values with cognitive ability

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Empathy tends to be a byproduct of considering another person's point of view and not immediately assuming the worst. There is definitely intelligence there, if you are considering all angles

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Yes I do agree with that. Although the converse not. I.e. acting non-empathetic → non-intelligent, which the person I was responding to meant