Dec 10, 2011 / Topic Ideas

Is there a cure for stupidity?

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  3. Million Dollars????

    Well- First I would pay off the taxes….then all my debts….then buy a Trailer (double-Wide) just for me, put it on a nice piece of land- No pets of any kind (except a good watch dog)!
    invest some of the money- buy what I needed- and live out the rest of my days being content with all my crafts around me……..

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  5. What is your notion of stupidity? Is it the level of ones education? Is it the straight A student that has no common sense? Or the person that throws his faith to the wind and picks no direction to fly? Could it be the liars, cheats and drug users? There is a lot of stupid in this world and nothing can fix it not even a million dollars unless the ones acting stupid want to find a different road.

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  7. If I was given a million dollars to “reduce stupidity” in my area, I guess I’d divide it up amongst the schools but how the schools handle the money is beyond my control. All I can do is hope they put it to good use.

    I almost thought of adding, “maybe build new schools” but now that I think about it, once the money runs out, the new schools would struggle as well so I guess I’d just stick to existing schools and pray the money helps them hire new teachers to get the kids educated.

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  8. Proper investment in education facilities and removing the support structures of interest groups that increase ignorance and stupidity (religious groups wanting creationism in schools or ineffective abstinence programmes).

    Lastly I would create laws to prevent the media from misreporting science stories when the very act of misreporting them damages the public interest (alt therapies, creationism, climate change). If we had done that before we wouldn’t now be facing a measles epidemic and we would be doing something about climate change instead of fighting back against highly organised liars.

    True ignorance is not the lack of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it – Karl Popper

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  12. Just look around – There’s clearly no cure for stupidity in sight and the Government frowns upon us opening a can of whoop ass when required…

    Go figure!

    Θ)

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  14. oh gosh, that is really hard. i think that if our government woyld spend enough money on schools, the world would be less idiotic. did anyone know that this guy kissed a rattlesnake?
    if i could put a million doallers toward stopping stupidity, i would definitly use it on better educated children. beacause when they grow up, they will be the ones teacbing our children, and soon andso forth.

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  15. Yes theres a cure for stupidity. EDUCATION. With a million dollars I would get other millionares to put up there millions (at least 100 of them) and take all of the children who are being kicked out of school because they are so called stupid or dont fit in the box, because they learn differently than what the teacher is teaching and put them in a school where they could shine and become productive citizens. Hopefully they would do the same for other children who will come down that same path.

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  20. You don’t need a million dollars to reduce stupidity. All you need to do is stop playing games on your phone all day long, stop making Mark Zuckerberg more arrogant and believe that his con-stunt should earn him being considered a “legend”, stop wasting your time on all other dumb social fuck sites, and walk upright, forward looking again, and voila, you are close to being a human, able to use their own brain, again.

    But for 6,999,999.999% dumb asses, this is, of course, the most irrational solution. So I guess, you have to keep dumb and mix with your same sort.

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    1. Yes!!! Thank you so much.I remember when I was a kid, wishing I had Dick Tracy’s watch-phone. Little did I know that, with the creation of personal telephones, society overall would descend into stupidity so quickly. And SMS — what a crock of shit those things are. Actually, what a crock of shit, the way people use them, because the idea is good. Get your nose out of Facebook and look around, people. We’re turning into a stupid society.

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  22. I would spend any where in USA to create community gardens and farms where people could grow and raise their own organic, sustainable, chemical-free food. GMOs, pesticides, and herbicides are stupid!

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  23. I think just take the million dollars and give yourself a permanent break from the normal life and viola, contact with stupidity has just been solved on the localized level.

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  25. I am a member of the Grammar police, so my first act would be required grammar and spelling class in the 8th grade, and a tough test to pass, or they have to take it the next year in place of an elective.

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  27. there’s no cure for stupidity even a million dollar cannot fix it. thinking to cure stupidity is already a stupid in itself. but there’s consolation in being stupid, i find humor

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  29. reduce stupidity in my area? well I’d start by adding more trash cans around the neighborhood so people can stop using my front garden as their personal garbage dump. I’d create a fund to reward people for reporting litterbugs and those who don’t curb their dogs (not sure if this would work but it’s annoying when people don’t clean up after their dogs). I’d also start community gardens all around the city so folks can get good produce, herbs, etc on the cheap and also start teaching families about eating healthy and preparing good meals so I don’t have to see 5-6 yr old kids going to school eating potato chips and soda for breakfast!

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  30. I don’t think being Educated equates to not being stupid. It depends on how you define stupid. If you take the definition that stupid is slow to learn or dense (dictionary words not mine) then using a million dollars to give people the chance to learn seems like a good idea but it’s only going to work if they want to learn and some people just don’t which isn’t stupid in the true definition it’s lazy or narrow minded and no amount of opportunity is ever going to solve that. I am also of the opinion that if you really want to learn there’s always a way. Lets face it a huge amount of the ‘stupid’ people in the world have access to the internet and have the time and inclination to spend time on social media, if they can do that they can use the endless resources out there to learn. By the same token there are some incredibly educated people out there that do some monumentally stupid things so education doesn’t always cure stupid.

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