This whole diatribe is so self-affirming and fart-huffing that it's hard to take it seriously. Empathy is not a valuable trait in successful murderers. The OP can stroke his dick all day and hmm-yes himself off, but on a dark street in LA I'd much rather have 85 IQ and a knife than a doctorate in self-love and a briefcase.
On a dark street in LA, I'd rather have a doctorate in self-love, and a briefcase. What's in my briefcase? My self-love... my self-defence... my tommy gun!
On another point, most people already view Homeless vets as useless bums on the street. Now consider the military has a restrict requirement on IQ being >85IQ(
Not entirely true but splitting hairs on this point...). What does this say by transitivity about the government's stance on 85IQ or less folks? Well... nothing explicitly! But implicitly, we can mince words
Hell, multiple governments have tried to use eugenics to cull them, and abortions are heavily recommended by doctors for unlucky parents with cracked mirrors.
While a high IQ is valuable for abstract problem solving, it is not a pathway to happiness or even success. Imagine what our lives would be like if we weren't paranoid about climate change, being hunted by shadowy government agents or the downfall of society. Imagine what it'd be like if you only cared about where your next nut was coming from or how many likes you have on your insta.
I definitely wouldn't call it a pathway to happiness, but it has been consistently shown to have a very strong correlation with career/financial success.
If the problem is happiness or success and is targeted by these High IQ people, then they get it. A lot of high IQ people don't target happiness(hence the common depressed intellectual). A lot of people don't really have a clue how they'd define happiness OR success either and tend to be incredibly corrosive towards achieving that- consider how often smart people shame others- I'll leave >reddit
dogpiling as a good example of this, and how nihilism is so common nowadays. Even those high IQ folks.
High IQ isn't good if your identity is tied to IQ as it is in those Mensa folks. If you look at general population and look the Mensa population and compare financial success of the 2 populations, Mensa has a worse rate of financial success. Your arrows are aimed at the bridge to high IQ, the indicator, not to success or happiness. This can also partly be attributed as a risk-reward payoff. Smart people are paradoxically less likely to take risky decisions as risky decisions are usually stupid decisions... UNLESS... you have a taste of delusion, adventure, action, mental illness, wine or other great and terrible tastes(now these are the creative people, usually smart, usually homeless, usually punished for their bad taste, and rarely... 1/1000 times maybe, rewarded massively for what they bring to the table.).
Unfortunately most people don't set their sights on happiness or success- or they have denied themselves the wisdom of their body in what is happiness or successful to them- preferring the herd's happiness or success. Most people think happiness is a night inebriated at the pub, when the next day they are violently sick or violently pacified in the drunk tank.
This whole diatribe is so self-affirming and fart-huffing that it's hard to take it seriously. Empathy is not a valuable trait in successful murderers. The OP can stroke his dick all day and hmm-yes himself off, but on a dark street in LA I'd much rather have 85 IQ and a knife than a doctorate in self-love and a briefcase.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of someone. There's something there... understanding. If you have poor theory of mind, you cannot understand another. As for the sharing feelings part- I think it often does a lot more harm than good to try and share feelings with someone, as you can drown under their own feelings. Doctors who have to deal with a regular rotation of dying patients has to break the news of death- and sharing those feelings is bad. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of empathy, and as a result, causes a lot of people to view Doctors as psychopathic, when in reality it's to stop themselves drowning in misery.
Empathy is not a valuable trait in successful murderers.
How do you define a successful murderer. Landing in the slammer? I would define it as someone who murders, achieves the murder, and doesn't affect their life negatively doing it. The most successful murderers, are those who understand people. A form of this, is understanding what will get them caught. Only idiots get caught for a crime that is consciously and willingly done. Another form is more divorced from intentional murder, and is more of a side effect... convincing or manipulating others to murder for them(as a side note, those others murdering on behalf of the government to shoot up some Russians in the Ukrainian war in foreign legion. They end up with PTSD and other experiences that can crush a person's spirit). Politicians, advertisers, food industry CEOs... etc. It's a murder put up a stepladder of understanding, but as the saying goes: "It is not enough to succeed, Others must fail.".
Empathy is about understanding- but joke-cracking of all forms can be had within the confines of understanding. In fact... those who are offended, usually indicates they've struck Gold! Within that Gold, is Golden laughter at the joy both parties have in the dance of discussion! Of course this has to be the laughter of the man and not of the herd, as the latter has those very >reddit
dogpiling qualities. Jokes require a lot more work to understand, just like aphorisms. Unfortunately people are married to offense more than laughter- misery more than happiness. Back to the problem of happiness: I think most people don't want happiness, but want comfort. Especially the smart hikikomori rejects "memento mori"... memento hikikomori.
