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Spearthrower wrote:

Sadegh wrote:

ScholasticSpastic wrote:

Sadegh wrote:
Also, describing the great odious bulk of humanity accurately isn't "cherry-picking".

Describing the bulk of humanity accurately isn't cherry picking. But that's not what you did.

I did: stupid, vacuous, greedy, shallow, thoughtless, corrupt.

And your source for this sweeping claim?

These assessments are invariably partly a matter of opinion. Finding other people "vacuous", for example, is just how I experience things, and generally is how I've experienced things since early childhood. I don't think you can objectively justify an opinion on that one way or another. Anyway, as far as intelligence is concerned, though I never really found George Carlin funny, I did find him insightful sometimes:

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Average intelligence is effectively pretty stupid. Regarding the issue of greed, there is a very good book I mentioned in another thread about how deeply rooted human avarice is ruining the planet:

http://www.amazon.com/Too-Smart-our-Own ... B007MXBNGS

Before any quips about the title, take note of table of contents, specifically how the final chapter is named.