Humans are fucking stupid

[mongers]

I don't have a problem with stupid people per se. I know plenty of idiots who can barely tie their own shoelaces but whom can still manage to be quite insightful nonetheless. In addition, it's possible to be stupid but still a good person.

The dangerous and annoying people are the fundamentalists, fanatics and elitists, and they come in all varieties. Many of them with a sense of entitlement blown far out of proportion to their individual value.

Never thought I'd say this, but ... I entirely agree with you. 

[DGuller]

I don't have a problem with stupid people per se. I know plenty of idiots who can barely tie their own shoelaces but whom can still manage to be quite insightful nonetheless. In addition, it's possible to be stupid but still a good person.

The dangerous and annoying people are the fundamentalists, fanatics and elitists, and they come in all varieties. Many of them with a sense of entitlement blown far out of proportion to their individual value.

Never thought I'd say this, but ... I entirely agree with you. 

I don't know about that, I haven't noticed much insight coming from Slargos. 

[Slargos]

I don't have a problem with stupid people per se. I know plenty of idiots who can barely tie their own shoelaces but whom can still manage to be quite insightful nonetheless. In addition, it's possible to be stupid but still a good person.

The dangerous and annoying people are the fundamentalists, fanatics and elitists, and they come in all varieties. Many of them with a sense of entitlement blown far out of proportion to their individual value.

Never thought I'd say this, but ... I entirely agree with you. 

Pfft. You've said the same thing before, so either you have a very short memory or you're getting existential in your old age. 

[Eddie Teach]

I think all self-identifying intellectuals have felt an immature sense of superiority over their fellow humans...

FYP.

Not just "intellectuals", many very ordinary and average people have that sense. Somebody with pretensions of intellect is unlikely to use the phrase "here's your sign".

[Razgovory]

I think all self-identifying intellectuals have felt an immature sense of superiority over their fellow humans...

FYP.

Yeah.  Most people believe they are above average in intelligence.  Curiously, the dumber someone is, the more likely they will think they are more intelligent then average.  Illusory superiority is an interesting concept.  And there is no better place to find it then an online forum.

[Eddie Teach]

Curiously, the dumber someone is, the more likely they will think they are more intelligent then average.

link?

[Razgovory]

Curiously, the dumber someone is, the more likely they will think they are more intelligent then average.

link?

Okay, let me look for a moment.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/overestimate.aspx  There's a lot more stuff.  This is more about competence.

[Eddie Teach]

That seems to agree with you halfway. It says people with low scores were more likely to overestimate their scores, not that people with low scores were more likely to think their scores were high.

[Syt]

Are you going to shoot up some place, Brain?

Edit: Same with Syt. That sounded like a Unabomber rant.

That would presume I want to change people. While other people tend to go on my nerves they should still live their life as they like, even if I don't like their choices.

[Sheilbh]

I have a problem with slow people....

[Martinus]

I have a problem with people (usually they are middle aged or elderly women) who take goddamn ages at the cash register.

[Sheilbh]

I have a problem with people (usually they are middle aged or elderly women) who take goddamn ages at the cash register.

Them.  Especially at places like Starbucks.  The people who stop at the end of an escalator (WHY?).  Slow people on pavements in busy areas (tourists, the elderly and love-bugs I'm looking at you ).  All of them

[Tonitrus]

People (usually moms and/or the elderly) who tie up the self-checkout lanes at grocery stores with a giant cart of 30+ items (including produce that has to be weighed), while handling distracting children and then paying with cash and counting out each individual coin because they don't want to get change....should be shot on sight by automated machine guns.

[Ed Anger]

You babies will survive your harrowing checkout. 

[Ideologue]

The people who stop at the end of an escalator (WHY?).

They're scary.  You can get sucked under and ground to death in their gears.  IT'S HAPPENED.