Being stupid or ugly is not quite the same as being color-blind or spirituality-blind because stupidity and ugliness have a more direct impact on your reproductive fitness,
Of course it’s not quite the same. Neither is being stupid quite the same as being ugly. But do you really think a thing is only a real insult if it’s about something that directly impacts your reproductive fitness? That seems a very odd idea to me. (And I question whether being intelligent—as opposed to unintelligent, rather than outright stupid—is a net benefit to reproductive fitness; I would guess that typical reproductive fitness is no worse at IQ 100 than at IQ 140. If you think “unintelligent” implies stupider than that, feel free to pretend I said “not especially intelligent” instead of “unintelligent”.)
And because stupidity have more direct impact on IQ score, uglyness on actor profession opportunities, color-blind on painter options and spirituality-blindness on inner feeling of well-being perhaps?
If we’re being very charitable, spirituality-blindness might mean something like “low trait absorption)” which would imply a reduced ability to benefit from placebo effects.
edit: Sorry, I didn’t figure out how to make a link that includes a closing bracket work in this comment syntax.
Being stupid or ugly is not quite the same as being color-blind or spirituality-blind because stupidity and ugliness have a more direct impact on your reproductive fitness,
Of course it’s not quite the same. Neither is being stupid quite the same as being ugly. But do you really think a thing is only a real insult if it’s about something that directly impacts your reproductive fitness? That seems a very odd idea to me. (And I question whether being intelligent—as opposed to unintelligent, rather than outright stupid—is a net benefit to reproductive fitness; I would guess that typical reproductive fitness is no worse at IQ 100 than at IQ 140. If you think “unintelligent” implies stupider than that, feel free to pretend I said “not especially intelligent” instead of “unintelligent”.)
And because stupidity have more direct impact on IQ score, uglyness on actor profession opportunities, color-blind on painter options and spirituality-blindness on inner feeling of well-being perhaps?
If we’re being very charitable, spirituality-blindness might mean something like “low trait absorption)” which would imply a reduced ability to benefit from placebo effects.
edit: Sorry, I didn’t figure out how to make a link that includes a closing bracket work in this comment syntax.
Replacing it with %29 will do. I’m not sure whether preceding it with a backslash does. Let’s see.
URL-encoding with percent signs: trait absorption.
Backslashes on parentheses:trait absorption).
Looks like they both work.