"... "Liberalism"—which [Satoshi] Kanazawa defines, in part, as caring about the well-being of vast numbers of people you'll never meet—"is a very new thing for humans," he said.
"Historically, humans cared about the welfare of immediate family and friends but not complete strangers." ..."
We certainly see this among the usual suspects who post to the Olympian. LOL
If the shoe fits, wear it: "... in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell
"There's no firewall for stupidity." -- Mike Hamilton
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." -- Søren Kierkegaard
Sunday, March 7, 2010
There will be lots of spittle flying in the LTE comments section if they read this
Liberals, Atheists Are More Highly Evolved? Smarter people more inclined to nontraditional values, study suggests.
The best part of that study is that it has tracked the same group since 1994
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