Is stupidity genetics? or adaptation?

Answer 1

Being mentally challenged is very often an inherited genetic trait through faulty DNA. However, stupidity is the direct result of being obtuse which very often tends to be an adaption on a persons part to mask their lack of concern or the fact that they failed in life at gaining the intelligence to be otherwise smart. In any case, stupid people chose this charactierization of their own free will.

Answer 2

It is subjective, not genetic, or an adaptation. It is somebody judging somebody else thinking they are themself superior or inadequate to the person they are judging. Rawles would tell you that when peering through the veil of ignorance the last great deference will be that of being smart or being ignorant. I think Rawles was smoking something that point. If he wasn't he would have seen that the last great deference existence and everything else. But just for argument sake, I will point out that stupidity can be the result of brain damage, which is neither genetic nor an adaptation. It just is and we judge it so.

Answer 3

Stupidity seems to be one (or both) of two things. One is simply a poorly-wired brain. The other is mental laziness, an unwillingness to look at things rationally, objectively, and methodically.

Either way though, I think a very apt metaphor would be to say that the brain is just like a muscle. Some people are born with better ones than others, but even then you can build it up by exercising it frequently. Just the same, a brain that is seldom exercised will atrophy away over time.

Answer 4

I believe that people are born bad, and I believe stupidity is 10% genetics and 90% adaptation.

Answer 5

stupidty is genetic. Ignorance and stupidity or two different things
An ignorant person may not know many things but can pick up given the necessary tuition. A stupid cannot be taught because
he does not have the capacity to grasp.

Answer 6

Neither ... someone may be born with a few less brain cells, but that doesn't mean that the brain can't adapt. Remember Forrest Gump " Stupid is as stupid does "

Adaptation is a function of intellegence, not its opposite.

Answer 7

All of our characters are genetic, including stupidity, laziness and ego.

We are just very high intelligent robots created by God for his purpose.

Answer 8

Stupid is just a lazy mind. I don't believe genetics has anything to do with it.

Answer 9

sometime i think i am genetically inclined to adapt in the most stupid of ways.

in high school i pretended to be stupid so they didn't expect too much. in college i pretended to be intelligent so i could get "the grade"

i don't think anyone believed me in either case.

Answer 10

I suspect that most of the time stupid is a 'choice'. Most humans are not 'stupid', but many humans choose to be stupid. Stupid is easy, thinking is hard. Therefore, 'stupid' tends to be more common than 'smart'.

A whole other issue is the possibility that our legal system in the U.S. actually encourages 'stupid' by rewarding it and discourages 'smart' by punishing it. Stupid people "win the legal lottery" when their stupid actions are compensated by hard-working, 'smart' people that create the assets that the legal system 'transfers' to the stupid.