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Intelligence and/or Wisdom,
Contrasted with Morality, Ethics and/or Actions.

Criminals, I'd imagine there exist 'some intelligent criminals.
But would 'most intelligent people choose crime?
Moneywise, there are often less risky ways to make money.
The most intelligent of people would make their money legally I'd figure.

Passion in crime, serial killers, mass shooters, rage.
If they were truly intelligent they could shift their self damaging passion, or see their situation with perspective.

It's strange, weapon vs armor theory applied to society.
Better forensics and surveillance, chances of being caught are higher.

Yet too technology has brought about,
Drones, remote controlled bombs, the internet ability to track targets.
Even before this there existed,
Fire, poison, latex masks and wigs, transportation to other cities.

It's not as though people lack the 'intelligence to get away with crime.
Most people just lack such 'desire to so harm people (Theory).

What criminals have is ruthlessness,
Or put another way, a pathetic or atrophies sense of Empathy and Rightness. (Theory)
Nothing to be 'proud of,
. . . But then one argues morality subjective.
. . .

But ought not certain conclusions result from Intelligence and Wisdom?
A valuation of like?
Game Theory sense of self protection, leading to valuing others out of habit of following said Game Theory?
No honor among thieves, little happiness in crime and worry of the law catching up.
An intelligent person ought see the value of legality and morality. (Theory)

The more options one considers the less specific each choice gets.

This is one of the problems with moral subjectivism. It leads to wicked behavior. In the eyes of the law it's crime. But morally? Only if the rest of society finds out about it.

How is that a random thought?

I guess we're fortunate that Nature and Nurture wire us to prefer certain Moral Goalposts,

Objectivity of a sort.

Those are choices and not a random thought.

I sometimes worry we're all just a bunch of sock puppets that an all encompassing Consciousness is playing with by themself, and the Consciousness is either too confused to notice that it's not real, or is too engrossed in the experience to notice.

Worry is not a random thought. It’s a reflection of deep seated insecurities.

Note to self, 400 degrees, 35 minutes, is too much for sliced mushroom in the oven.
Chicken pot pie turned out well though.

Even the chickens cannot eat the mushrooms at that temperature 

I wonder what musical instruments would sound good underwater.

That is a ridiculous thought.

My Xiaomi phone is the best phone I ever had.

I used to think Samsung is king of phones. But samsung is more expensive than xiaomi. Fact that I can play all latest games on my 170$ phone is amazing.

I could have also bought used iphone 12 for similar price. But I hate apple OS. I dont think its better, especially with the fact that Xiaomi has 8gb ram plus 8gm ram extension.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 4G feels like flagship phone. Of course, I did have to manually disable all apps from running in backround, which maybe caused phone to be faster. 

I have both notes and office app for writing installed by default, didnt have to install them myself.

Also, Xiaomi has second storage, which basically means 2 phones in one. Amazing.

I used to be a fan of samsung, because its phone seemed to last for almost a decade and still work fine.

So now I have two phones, old Samsung and new Xiaomi.

Old samsung still works, but it is slower than Xiaomi and obviously cant play latest games, also only has like 32 GB memory, where Xiaomi has 256 GB memory.

Just a thought. How does it compare to Trump phone soon to be released?

I can afford this phone. But trump phone? I wouldnt even trust trump...

Trump phones will help you get over your phone addiction by limiting usage time to a few hours everyday.

It’s crazy how many debates on this site were forfeited by one side, both in many cases.

I was part of that problem, and as a result, my elo is way lower than it really should be. But it is my fault.

I think I’ll try to climb in so on DebateCraft someday, but for now, I like having fun my messing around- just by accepting random debates on DART.

I'd imagine DART is currently more visible to the world than DebateCraft.

. . .

I suppose one could avoid having so many forfeits by having requirements for joining the site, or being selective in who one accepts.

If countries had proper orphan child rearing wards of the state schools, what harm would there be in overpopulation?
. . . Well, they might still end up a bit messed up, if it's not a caring family environment.
But they 'could grow up well, and 'better maybe than some home environments.

I recall in the Republic, Plato arguing that the kids of the state should not know their parents, and vice versa.

. . Being raised by the state would allow the 'ideal amount of indoctrination, and encouragement upon paths useful to the government.
. . .
Sounds kind of messed up,
But an argument people always seem to make about immigration, is that we need people starting from nothing to do the jobs no one else will.
Never mind that populations and cultures can get displaced by said immigration.
Never mind that maybe we ought not 'have certain jobs and commodities if the only people who will do them are illegal workers.

Not that I'd be for banning contraception.
Just idle thoughts.

I don't really get people who encourage 'other people to come and take their stuff.
. . .

Loyalty is important, it's a driver.
I don't really understand loyalty when someone is from somewhere else.
Of course many such people have it, 'more than me even.
. . . Appreciate many of America's ideas and ideals more than me.

But I don't strongly value adoption into a country.
People have different politics, religion, ideas, countries of origin, and heritage.
. . . Heh, of course my own ancestors were immigrants at various points.

But imagine some space aliens come to Earth, immigrate into a country, until all the humans are gone.
Does one 'really think one's 'people and one's country still live on?
. . . Some do I'd suppose, but not I.
Well, 'technically maybe the country, from a certain point of view, semantics.

. . . And arguably I suppose all countries change, we hardly wear top hats in America anymore, as an example.
Cultural changes, demographic changes, religions, philosophies.
. . . But people change too, even in a single life. . . But there's that stream? of consciousness.
I remember yesterday, my flesh and blood are of yesterday.

That’s not random thinking. It’s conflicting thoughts leading to confusion.