A Citation to Asimov

nstents

A sense of superiority due to status (including race, wealth, etc), and ability, is a stepping stone on the way to lessening the worth, and so humanity, of others.

PowerElectronix

It's human nature. We just love to belong to a group of people and think it's the bestest group of people ever. Thanks to that we have a pretty advanced society, unlike any other being on the planet. And we also have ethnic cleansings, religious prosecution, terrorism... Also unlike any other being on the planet.

hazard

In a moment of weakness, I joined a high-IQ group (Triple Nine Society). The whole mailing list was just people having the same political arguments that were on the rest of social media, just with a bigger vocabulary.

sp1nningaway

Reading I, Asimov as a kid immediately converted me from a Southern Baptist to humanist/atheist. I'm sad that atheist discourse has moved away from Vonnegut/Sagan/Le Guin-style humanism. Starting with Hitchens, prominent intellectuals seem like they hate God more than they believe in people. Are there any current writers or public figures that have taken up the human-loving atheism of my youth?

xyzelement

// I became uncomfortably aware that Mensans, however high their paper IQ might be, were likely to be as irrational as anyone else. This reminds me of Asimov persuading his own children not to have children because he decided that population growth was an issue.