Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by greggman2 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:26AM (#21258092)

If you decide it's about punching peole in the face either you'll wildly succeed or more likely you'll get punched back and eventually locked up by the community at large who are all pursuing their own meanings and have collectively agreed to stop people punch other people in the face.

I mean you could choose that the meaning of life is to punch people in the face but you'll have to live with the reprocussions of that choice. That feels like you'll quickly come to the rational decision that it was/is a bad choice.

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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by sireat on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:46PM (#21260540)

The problem is that pure rationality leads into abyss.

There might be a rational decision not to punch people directly into face but a purely rational psychopath can choose many other profitable avenues that are disastrous to society at large "in the long run" (fentanyl, global warming, etc etc). And we know what happens in the long run.

It all goes back to Ecclesiastes(and Job), you can be an "evil" person and prosper in this world.

If this tiny lifespan is all there is, this is quite distressing. And physically there is nothing else.

Apparently the best solution is to realize there are no rules but live as if they do per Voltaire(not necessarily Pascal).

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