I also handed it over most of the time, simply because he made the compelling argument that the technology will be invaluable in fighting the Reapers. Of course at that point I thought you'd still be in Cerberus in ME3.
I also handed it over most of the time, simply because he made the compelling argument that the technology will be invaluable in fighting the Reapers. Of course at that point I thought you'd still be in Cerberus in ME3.
I handed it over because a) the Illusive Man had humanities best interests at heart and even if he turned it against the other races I wouldn't really care and b) I thought that, despite withholding information from Shepard he was a pretty cool guy.
As a rule, use this: Intellectual people rarely take huge risks, the more willing to take risks someone is, the less likely he is capable of understanding the risks and properly dealing with the situation the risk creates
You're probably wrong. Intelligent people are far more likely to try drugs and other mind altering substances than average folk, for example. It's not that they're less likely to take risks, it's that they're better informed about what the risks are and how to deal with them.
Also: We're talking about unknown alien technology from beyond the stars, and it's effects on a man who's not quite human anymore. Trying to count him among us may be futile.
Taking drugs is not taking a risk though, not in the sense I was referring to anyway, not to mention just because there is a connection between intelligence and substance abuse it doesn't mean you can just wildly speculate about the cause, drugs don't pose a "risk" of negative side effects, they're a given, "intelligent people" just tend to find the trade-off between not dealing with their inherent depressions and suffering physical ails acceptable (I'm generalizing here though, but I hope you get the point ^^)
Here's a fact for ya (god that sounds arrogant, forgive me!) Depression is more and more common the more intelligent people become, substance abuse and depression pretty much walk hand in hand
Anyway, back to my old point, there is a difference in taking a risk and doing something risky, taking a risk is being aware of the "risk" (the possibly negative results of the action, also remember that "risk" always involves "chance" so certainty as in side-effects with drugs are not a risk) and deciding to go for it anyway
You're implying that side effects caused by drug use are a certainty. For the most part they're not.
As for intelligent people taking less risks, I don't think any correlation can be found. Intelligent people just take different risks, being better aware of whether taking the risk is worth it.
I'll conclude with this: The higher the risks someone is willing to take, the safer it is to assume a lacking intelligence (notice how carefully I phrased that ;p)
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