• Maerman@lemmy.worldOP
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    23 hours ago

    I get what you’re saying, but I don’t really believe that anyone is inherently less bright. I think we all have the capacity to be incredibly “intelligent” (a nebuluos term that doesn’t mean much, in my estimation). But our abilities get ground down over the years through failure, negative experience and media. We just need to flex our brains and boost our neuroplasticity.

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      15 hours ago

      Sure, “brightness” or “intelligence” might not be innate and immutable. But at a given time, some people are more or less various things that get called intelligence. Maybe they’re just having a bad day. Maybe they’re more routinely making bad decisions because of poor peer examples and nutrition. It’s not always their fault.