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The only thing that hurts me is realizing that the vast majority of people on this forum are of below average IQ.
This hurts because they have the most idiotic of ideas - almost all borne of sheer ignorance, like yours.
I find it interesting that you would steep to the level of attacking other people's intelligence. Not because the point that a significant portion of people have a below average IQ isn't true (statistically speaking it is true, by definition, for half of the population) but because in my experience, people who actually are of noteworthy intelligence*1 understand that most other people naturally capable of the same things they are, and aren't naturally capable of the same leaps*2 in logic they are.
Instead of blaming this naturally born lack of capacity on the person in question, and calling it stuff like "sheer ignorance", which blames the person in question, they're more than willing to slow down, back up and actually talk through their thinking process in a manner that makes it comphrehencible to those less capable*2. In fact, the very essence of high intelligence is the capability to break down complex ideas into smaller parts.
Somebody of lesser intelligence might be able to grasp complex ideas with a lot of effort, but they'll never be able to grasp the ideas enough to break them down in less complex parts in order to share/spread it to others.
Those who resort to calling others 'dumb' (or equivalent) usually do so because they perceive themselves to have mastered complex ideas, yet are unable to grasp the intricacies of the concepts they're dealing with with enough mastery to break down the idea into its smaller parts so that it may become comprehensible to the masses. Sometimes this is because the idea they think they've grasped is wrong and faulty to begin with, other times this is due to the fact that they simple lack the intellect themselves to be able to break down the idea into smaller concepts.
Either way, these people usually suffer from the Dunning–Kruger effect where they vastly overestimate their own level of intellect, precisely because of their own insufficiency in the area.
People with actual noteworthy intelligence*1 don't blame people who don't have this for being dumb (or equivalent), instead they grasp other's limitations and are capable of presenting important ideas with enough ease so that others may also be able to understand them.
Resorting to calling others dumb (or equivalent) when one is unable to make their point, actually is one of the strongest indicators out there that one lacks the intelligence necessary to grasp the point one is attempting to make with enough easy to claim to have achieved mastery of the idea one is presenting...
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*1 For the context of this post "noteworthy intelligence" is defined as "anybody whose IQ is high enough so that the 'average person' is closer in IQ to a bonobo than they are to them".
*2 By "leaps in logic" I mean intelligent people's tendency to be able to make jumps such as A -> D -> M, whereas most people need to go A -> B -> C -> D -> ... to follow the same train of thought, not "leaps in logic" as in "drawing unfounded conclusions".
I was waiting for an opportunity to use "lady boner", which I love, and this gave me one. 
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