“Yes. You stated that lefties by definition are not intelligent because they arrive at wrong conclusions.”
Don’t go rewriting what I said to make it easier to refute. Leave that to the woketards. I said “A person isn’t intelligent unless they *can* ponder reality and arrive at correct conclusions.”
I didn’t say that a person who occasionally makes a mistake cannot be intelligent, as you imply.
“I gave examples of persons who arrive at wrong conclusions who are intelligent.”
Firstly, Satan is a supernatural being, and therefore not a part of this discussion.
Secondly, it seems too obvious to need mentioning that I was not talking about scientists who occasionally arrive at an incorrect experimental result, but rather the realm of human experience in which the term “lefties” has meaning. E.g., political philosophy vice physics.
RBG might do well on an IQ test, but remains a “leftie” despite all her exposure to questions of political philosophy. This is a crashing, resounding, catastrophic failure of intelligence.
Stephen Hawking was apparently a genius in certain scientific disciplines, but allowed his academic co-conspirators to whipsaw him into making a statement that there is no God. Again, a catastrophic failure of intelligence.
Most of academia would probably esteem mathematical intelligence to be more important than the kind of intelligence that leads one to reject leftism and atheism.
I would disagree. The universal acceptance of leftism and atheism would be disastrous for humanity. The ability to ponder reality and arrive at correct conclusions of this nature is absolutely vital, to individuals and to humanity. IMV, a person who is *unable* to do this is unintelligent, no matter what sort of mathematical rainman he might be.
Billy Blythe Xlintstone had a type of intelligence, if such it should be deemed, that allowed him to make people like him. He rode that all the way to the White House (albeit through electoral fraud). When it came to running a country, he was a slobbering moron. He allowed great evils to be perpetrated on his watch, because he was unable to distinguish between good and evil. Which kind of intelligence do you want to see in a leader?
A leftist like RBG appears to be *unable* to view the evidence and solve these problems. That makes her, in my estimation, an idiot. Sure, she can sling around legalese. I’m not impressed. Hell, I can do that. But she is hardly ever able to arrive at a correct conclusion as to the right thing to do. Can’t say never, because even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while, but so seldom as to render the exceptions irrelevant.
At her primary job, which is thinking her way through to a correct conclusion regarding right and wrong, she is utterly inept. Unintelligent.
Likewise, a person who cannot think his way through to a correct conclusion regarding right and wrong cannot be called intelligent. That is the distinguishing intellectual failure of a leftist. Leftists, therefore, cannot be called intelligent, however facile they may be at lesser intellectual disciplines.