If you had to choose one option, you would choose tomorrow morning to be...

[Boojatta]

[Hydra]

1. 100% Ebil!

:evilgrin:

[Ian David]

2. I voted for Dead. However...

Very many people who are Stupid But Good end up causing harm and creating great evil in the world despite their best intentions otherwise.

Stupid, Evil people, on the other hand, tend to easily fall into the hands of those who will exploit them toward greater evil than their tiny little brains would have been able to manage on their own.

I think, on balance, good stupid people are more of a threat to themselves than they usually are to others.

Still, I'd rather be dead than stupid.

[zonmoy]

3. evil enough that if I died and ended up in hell.

I would overthrow the devil (who either has to be the universes biggest patsy or the most incompetent being in the universe) and actually beat god and take over everything.

[Boojatta]

4. That's not one of the three options.

[zonmoy]

5. Just think about how bad I would be among the living if

that is my plan if I die.

[PassingFair]

6. I voted (B) blue line.

Just another day in the life!

[Boojatta]

7. Interesting. I didn't plan the question sequence for that color scheme,

but it looks pretty good, especially the red and blue.

As for the green, I don't suppose that the loss of merely one more species would be considered a crippling blow to biodiversity, even if that one species were the human species. Thus, the loss of one individual of the human species would seem even less of a threat to biodiversity and perhaps not even register from a "green" point of view.

Of course, I don't deny that there could be irony in an individual who is likely more intelligent than an individual from any other species on this planet choosing to die because of concern about not being intelligent enough to live. Perhaps some "greens" (at least greens in the sense of this poll) have a very competitive attitude, but focus their competitive efforts on keeping up with other members of their species. It's seems like a kind of "keeping up with the Joneses" that focuses not on appearances of financial success, but on something even less significant than financial success. After all, you could be in a high income bracket, but contribute a lot of money to charity and use that as a substitute for the ordinary approach to "keeping up with the Joneses." However, how does lack of intelligence manifest itself? What does it mean other than social stigma?

[smoogatz]

8. Magenta, with Stratocasters.

I'm not sure why, but I always seem to pick "other" in Boojatta's polls.

[edhopper]

9. Tomorrow

I plan to make a nice omelet with some cheese and left-over vegetables.

[Boojatta]

10. Did you ever go to Casablanca in Morocco in pursuit of healing waters?

I hear that it's in the desert, but you might have been misinformed.

[Random_Australian]

11. Question: Is the evil person smart enough that they work out they shouldn't do

evil things, and thus they don't do evil things?

[Boojatta]

17. Are you sure that cognitive capability makes one adhere to principles of ethics?

Are you sure that they aren't two independent dimensions of personality?

[Random_Australian]

21. No, I'm not sure about that. I am, however, sure that "dimensions of personality"

is something you've just made up, and that f'all in the brain is truly independent.

But for what it is worth, smarter people are no better. Unless you were to take it to some hypothetical extreme.

[Realityhack]

12. "Stupid, but alive and extremely good." is possible?

I thought it took a certain amount of intelligence to really do good. Guess the sheeple are all super good after all.

[Boojatta]

16. "Guess the sheeple are all super good after all."

The option "Stupid, but alive and extremely good" doesn't specify docile or lacking independence.

I thought it took a certain amount of intelligence to really do good.

The option "Stupid, but alive and extremely good" doesn't specify that you would achieve things that are considered by others to be great and memorable.

[MedleyMisty]

13. Dead

Personally to me being stupid would be worse than being dead, good or evil or not.

But yeah - all the research I've done on moral development says that being intelligent helps a lot with developing morality.

[lips]

14. I chose dead

I'd also like to have my cadaver pose no threat to anything though, because the news was littered with necrophiles and cannabiles out partying not to long ago.

[John Gauger]

15. Dead. Next question.

Next answer is also "dead."

[Festivito]

18. Taking evil as hyperbole, perceived being evil, not being evil. 1.

Several places on DU already see me as such evil. It takes years, but I usually win them.

[smoogatz]

19. Okay, new answer: "evil" is largely a social construct and exists mostly

in the eye of the beholder as a relative/comparative quality. Since there's no such thing as inherent evil, you could, if you were evil and intelligent, decide to stop being evil simply by avoiding the appearance of evil, or the commission of evil acts. But you can't fix stupid, as the man says. Dead is also forever, unless you're a Hindu. Also, in literature intelligent evil characters are infinitely more interesting (and sympathetic) than good stupid characters. Who are you going to root for in a cage match between, say, Hannibal Lecter and Walker Texas Ranger? So, 1.

[ZombieHorde]

20. I went with evil.

I have worked in health care for about 10 years. Smart people with no scruples do way less harm than well-intended dumb people.

In politics, both seem to be disastrous.

[Boojatta]

22. "Smart people with no scruples"

Do they focus on their work or do they distract themselves with crossword puzzles when they're supposed to be working? If they distract themselves and make mistakes, then do they use unscrupulous tactics to avoid suffering personal consequences?

Do they ever pursue, with no scruples, very ambitious goals at work?

[tinrobot]

23. Define evil.

Some people think Americans are evil.

Some Americans think other people are evil.

Which is it?