Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives (Kitten Chow, have at it folks)

Psychology Today ^ | 3/22/10 | Satoshi Kanazawa

[Pajamajan]

"as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others"

Yah, that's why liberals support abortion and death panels- all their "concern" for others.

[Pajamajan]

1. Humblegunner

2.Hugh and Series

3.Stuned

Did I win?

Membership in the Cheese of the Month club for my sister?

A brand new 2015 Beeber

All expenses paid trip to Thailand?

[TADSLOS]

[RichInOC]

Lulz no, Ed.

[envisio]

Oh man... the fat guy bump-firing a Glock with the cushion of his fat belly. That is one of my favorite videos.

[Darksheare]

He reminds me of a certain multiretread who had a habit of claiming to like a lot of things.
He was also known as the Doku Pest.

[chesley]

One reason conservatives are more intelligent than liberals is that they have, at least, a rudimentary bull leavings detector.

Thus, they don’t swallow the stuff, and they don’t spew it upon others.

[Servant of the Cross]

At this point, he’s put me to sleep ... wake me up if the thread gets interesting again.

[chesley]

Amazingly, he has an answer for that:

The fact that conservatives have been shown to give more money to charities than liberals is not inconsistent with the prediction from the Hypothesis; in fact, it supports the prediction. Individuals can normally choose and select the beneficiaries of their charity donations. For example, they can choose to give money to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, because they want to help them, but not to give money to the victims of the earthquake in Chile, because they don’t want to help them. In contrast, citizens do not have any control over whom the money they pay in taxes benefit. They cannot individually choose to pay taxes to fund Medicare, because they want to help elderly white people, but not AFDC, because they don’t want to help poor black single mothers. This may precisely be why conservatives choose to give more money to individual charities of their choice while opposing higher taxes.

It still doesn't really address the issue of why conservatives give more. Liberals could give to a private agency that would guarantee to give it to whoever on a random basis, or was most likely to be offensive to the provider, or whatever.

The point is, though, that would be their money, and where's the fun in that?

[Monkey Face]

Are we too late for this one, Darksheare?

[Darksheare]

Not too late, it still lives.
If there is movement in the observation area we have to nudge Servant of the Cross awake.
(They’re over in that corner there, feet propped up and hat down.)

[Monkey Face]

We’re creeping up on 4,000 posts on the current thread, so maybe we can find new digs...

Ya think?

[Monkey Face]

There goes my subscription to Psychology Today! LOL!

I had a charter subscription to it, back in the day, but when my kids left home, I didn’t need the “advice.”

[Darksheare]

Yes, we need a new home.
This one is kind of lame.

I might have to “Self Post the UT” again.
I doan wanna.

[Monkey Face]

Of course, Post #162 could be a winner!

[TheOldLady]

Yes, and we have RedMDer to thank for Post #162.

Thank you, Red!

[Darksheare]

Bmup!
Er..Bump!

[Monkey Face]

Thanks, ResMDer! Pretty pithy!

[RedMDer]

Pretty wordy. LOL!

[RedMDer]

Thank you!
:)