Intelligence is not a defence against bad ideas. It is often the delivery mechanism — because a clever mind builds better justifications for whatever it already wanted to believe.
Most people treat their opinions as property. Once a belief has your name on it, giving it up feels like an amputation — which is exactly why so few people ever do.
Related arguments that started somewhere else.
One is an argument about why anything exists at all. The other is a personality with opinions about your clothes. We use the same word for both, and that confusion does most of the damage.
Nobody wakes up choosing cruelty. It arrives in small permissions, each one reasonable on its own — and the psychology behind that is more disturbing than any villain.
People say caste is finished while arranging their children’s marriages by it. A psychological reading of why a system can die officially and survive completely.
