Originally Posted by
Bluebird
It seems common enough to me. I see people on forums openly admitting to it all the time. Some don't admit to it, but it's still obvious to me. Seems to me more common with feelers and less with thinkers or E5's, but I've seen thinkers do it too, like 'they can't be my dual because I don't like them/I can't get along with them/I don't like how they act', which I had my suspicions someone was doing a few days back, which came from a thinking type ..But instead of being shocked, it seems like you are mocking it.
I think there is logical intelligence and emotional intelligence, coming in different forms. I don't think being weaker in one area makes someone idiotic, just possessing a different area of strength, and like the old saying, 'A jack of all trades is a master at none.' Sometimes it's just best to work with your strengths. For me, it can serve as a filter for what's important to me. It does seem some are unable to bypass that. But I still don't think that necessarily makes it idiotic, just different. And it can be good for a person, I suppose.
But I believe there are different forms of idiocy, and a person can think something is idiotic that is way different than what another thinks is idiotic by what's important to them. Sometimes people just think their way is best, and anyone doing anything different is lesser than them, less intelligent, or inferior...which I think this line of thought seems like a pretty common theme ingrained in the human character, varying in intensity, able to rear it's ugly head in forms such as intolerance, arrogance, and control, spanning across the ages...leading to disagreements, arguments, war...
I'm not saying I'm completely innocent of it myself, but I'm saying I acknowledge it.
So, in my eyes, to each their own. What's good for one person isn't necessarily good for another. What's idiotic to some is insightful to others. People have the option to disregard others opinions based on how they type or whatever, but it might work for others. Maybe both ways can lead to the same place in the end, even.