Is being a midwit a choice?

[GratsTheat783]

Is being retarded a choice? Is being smart a choice?

 

[Nickel Silver]

Being smart is not a choice.

Being a midwit or retarded is not necessarily a choice. But for some, choosing is possible with self-inflicted brain damage.

 

[The News Crews]

There's a lot of people these days who are capable of higher cognitive skills, but their laziness and/or their mentality prevents them from reaching it.

 

[GratsTheat783]

But for some, choosing is possible with self-inflicted brain damage.

Yeah, you're right...

YOU CAN CHOOSE FOR OTHERS TOO!

 

[Mary Lee Harvey osWalsh]

I'm only smart because I was born retarded but I chose to be smart

 

[Shartavius]

I don't respect the choice to be a midget.

 

[Mary Lee Harvey osWalsh]

I don't respect the choice to be a midget.

I don't respect the choice to be a pajeet

 

[Anime Waifu NFT collector]

You can become smarter, not in the IQ sense, by reading, being informed, intellectually curious, and by having critical thinking skills, there is a range of this between X and Y where X is doing nothing and Y is dedicating your life to it, if you tend towards X you will be a retard despite your IQ, but you can never be a genius even if you dedicate your life to learning and have an IQ of 90, anyone can become smarter, much smarter, but people are lazy and choose to learn nothing.

There is also something which I like to call being "ideologically disabled", in which your ideology prevents you from learning things that would make you smart, for example, being a leftist prevents you from understanding basic economics, so you will be retarded forever regardless of how much you read.

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

I think people have their baseline, but then everything from there is dependent on them. If you don't want to learn, you'll remain retarded forever.

 

[GratsTheat783]

There is also something which I like to call being "ideologically disabled", in which your ideology prevents you from learning things that would make you smart, for example, being a leftist prevents you from understanding basic economics, so you will be retarded forever regardless of how much you read.

What is something being right wing would prevent you from learning that is actually worth learning?

 

[Anime Waifu NFT collector]

What is something being right wing would prevent you from learning that is actually worth learning?

If you are a hardcore nationalist it will prevent you from understanding how free trade is better for everyone, this is much more common among right wingers in first world countries. Being ideologically disabled can happen to both leftists and right wing chuds.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I read this as “is being a midget a choice” and was ready to call you an idiot but now I feel like the idiot lol

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Midwittery (in my experience) is about being a "Good Person (tm)", not about knowledge. If midwits are exposed to a fact which contradicts the Good Person narrative, they have a meltdown and stick to the script, rather than change their mind.
A classic example of this was Covid, and how millions of people went from the (correct) skeptical view of the pharma industry to sucking down the clotshot because they "cared".
In a sense it's a choice, but it's mostly about oversocialisation.

 

[Nitro!]

No, because of the difference between education and intelligence. Intelligence is innate and can't be grown and trained like a muscle. Education and knowledge can be. A midwit is not intelligent, but may be highly educated. This is actually the most dangerous form of midwit. Midwits can choose to be more well-read, knowledgeable, even wise, but never more intelligent. In that sense it is not a choice.