Being intelligent is nothing without courage and sound principles. CS Lewis, when writing about education, said something along the lines that schools are merely producing “clever demons” or something of that sort.
That is exactly my point. Roberts was too easily swayed because he has no fundamental belief in a higher power. He may attend church, but I don’t think that he believes that are men are created equally and that therefore have equal God given rights.
I think that someone convinced Roberts that some people should be more equal than others because they have been traditionally oppressed.