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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (56899)	10/3/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Traits such as loyalty, sense of duty, and honesty should be held in higher esteem than one's IQ, IMO. And they are! Who cares what somebody's IQ is, unless it is a child at which point some sort of measurement is needed to determine curriculum (apparently). IQ has only some bearing on standardized college admissions tests, but certainly is not as important as the high school one attends, and after that, it becomes completely irrelevant wouldn't you say?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (56899)	10/3/1999 8:37:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

IQ is of no concern to me. I am speaking of intelligence- which is not measured very well by any test yet devised by man. But I know it when I see it. And like all things- it is a continuum. Most great evils are committed by societies (masses of idiots) running a muck. Without true believers, without idolatrous followers, without idiots, great evils would not be perpetrated. It was after all loyalty and "duty" to the fatherland that made the average German such a good Nazi. It was loyalty and duty to the church that fueled the inquisition. It was loyalty to their "tribe identity" that made the Hutus kill the Tutsis and vice versa. Same kind of group thinking, loyalty loving, wackos running the retribution game in the crisis areas of the former USSR.