yeahiknow3@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•More than a million adults have legal guardians. In seven states, they can't vote.
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7 months ago“Wisdom” in this case meaning the prejudices accumulated over a lifetime? According to research, an average septuagenarian is more narcissistic, less literate, more bigoted, and less intelligent than the average teenager. Sometimes by multiple standard deviations. (I can provide sources).
Couple the Flynn effect with lead poisoning and you have a gap of almost 30 IQ points in some areas of the country.
By the way, have you ever seen an old person’s brain in an MRI? It’s missing like 20% of its volume.
Fun fact, the permissibility of abortion is far and away the issue with the most consensus among philosophers. Literally philosophers are more confident that abortion is morally permissible than they are that the external world exists.
As such, you can use opinions on abortion as a litmus test for sociopathic tendency since it’s such an easy moral question. In doing so, however, you’d be confronting the fact that 30% of Americans are moral black holes from whom no rational opinion can be extracted. In that context, slavery, misogyny, religion, and all the evils of humanity suddenly make sense.