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I feel embarrassed for you Americans at the moment You're having a demagogue moment. Comparisons between Hitler and Trump are valid. Trump is manipulating the masses like puppet master in chief. Good luck with that if he gets to be commander in chief.

The purest competition of all is in fact found amongst drug dealers, where competitors are killed, territory is jealously guarded and ruthlessness is the norm. I don't see that in the rest of society. Drop the average middle class posh boy onto the streets amongst drug dealers and he wouldn't...

I couldn't care less if Van Gogh was a genius or he was the stupidest person on the planet. My original point was about Hitler, and he didn't make much money either. I'm not interested in defending either of them or how much money they made. The point was, different intelligences exist.

Does Warren Buffet have a greater effect on your life than Barack Obama. Explain how someone like Warren Buffet rules over you, has power over you and constantly subjugates you more so than Barack Obama who can tax and imprison you.

Isn't that what we call government. Worse still, governments have legal backing for their ideas.

None of this changes the fact that ability exists.

A quote from a movie! Anyone can copy a work, geniuses can be copied. You could copy the works of Shakespeare but wouldn't make it your original work, nor would it make you a genius. Music can be copied, anything can be copied. Go and create an original painting and try to sell it for...

We all know Hitler had an ability (on a one on one basis, not just en masse). No one can pretend he was the same as everyone else. Just like we all know Van Gogh had a great painting ability and that he too was a genius. Just because it cant be measured empirically, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

There is more than one type of intelligence. Smart people are often stupid, or perhaps that should be, university educated people are often stupid. Hitler was a genius with a seemingly superhuman ability to manipulate people (specially all those university educated people) but how would you...

All politicians operate somewhere along the political spectrum, ie, there are those on the left of the conservative party and those on the right of the conservative party, those on the left of the Labour party and those on the right. None are held to a precise definition of conservativism or...

Theres nothing there dude to make me think you're not just pretending. You say you're not claiming they have the same cognitive abilities then you contradict yourself by saying their abilities have been selected for. Have a look at The Flynn Effect which was way too rapid for genetic selection...

Show me the evidence for what you are saying, that genes are the predominant determinant. If you cant then you are just pretending, which could indeed be a behavior that is selected for in some people. Me, I prefer to go by the science and the evidence. Oh and nobody but you claimed that we...

Genes are not the only influence on behaviour. The environment/nurture also plays a role. How much influence each of the above has on behaviour has not been resolved as human behavior is complex enough that a quantitative figure could possibly not be placed on these. This is because nature and...

Motivation. IQ is as much a measure of MOTIVATION as intelligence. This University of Pennsylvania study found this- http://www.pnas.org/content/108/19/7716 Work ethic, self discipline, family support and encouragement, desire, these are all more important...