Kavekk wrote:
There's not much point pointing that out to us, though. It might be true that you've got intelligent people slobbering all over you, but there's no reason for us to believe so. If it's true, but you don't want to prove it, keep it to yourself; however much solace it gives you, you're not going to persuade the unconvinced without proof (or with it, perhaps, but one step at a time).
The point of pointing it out isn't so that other people will acknowledge or even believe me, but that maybe they won't be so quick to believe that their ability to gauge the intelligence of others is quite as accurate as they hoped. By all means, doubt me, but doubt yourself too.
@gbaji; You think whatever you like fella, since I know you're going to anyway. I discussed the issue, by happenstance, with a number of people today, as we reviewed an article from a medical journal. Every one of them understood my argument and wondered how we might get idiots like you to understand it as well. Here, I'll even give you a snippet of the article, mostly in lieu of wasting any more time engaging you:
Quote:
Structural violence , a term coined
by Johan Galtung and by liberation
theologians during the 1960s, describes
social structures—economic, political,
legal, religious, and cultural—that stop
individuals, groups, and societies from
reaching their full potential [57]. In its
general usage, the word violence often
conveys a physical image; however,
according to Galtung, it is the “avoidable
impairment of fundamental human
needs or…the impairment of human life,
which lowers the actual degree to which
someone is able to meet their needs
below that which would otherwise be
possible†[58]. Structural violence is often
embedded in longstanding “ubiquitous
social structures, normalized by stable
institutions and regular experience†[59].
Because they seem so ordinary in our
ways of understanding the world, they
appear almost invisible. Disparate access
to resources, political power, education,
health care, and legal standing are just
a few examples. The idea of structural
violence is linked very closely to social
injustice and the social machinery of
oppression [16].