Are some people born dumb or they are made dumb?

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

[SnowedIn]

I think we need to agree on terms. Dumb how?

Your brain capacity is mostly established when you're born but that capacity so far exceeds what humans use it for that I don't think that matters as much.

How we raise children and what we put into them determines a lot more. Street smarts, experience, knowledge -- and the ability to apply all those things.

So, probably not born dumb.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Just like what do you upload in an empty hard drive matters.

[SnowedIn]

What a WONDERFUL analogy! YES! And just like a hard drive that "only" has 512GB isn't dumb compared to a 1TB drive, same for people. We're oversimplifying this, but yes, you understood what I was saying.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

A new and empty hard drive of any capacity has some bit of storage strictly reserved for its own maintenance and security.

I think we are born with that, but then, we are fed with all kinds of data, does not matter good data or bad one about tthst thing, and we get more accepting when someone with similar feed is seen.

Computers have been so much like us from the start. This means they are bound to take over us as we are not able to control our own creation at this stage lol.😅
ust like a spolit child. Leading to a certain destruction.

[SnowedIn]

Thank you for mho!

[NathanDavis]

we all have brainless moments...

we all are completely ignorant on at least a couple of things...

we all can be dense at some point, and sometimes foolish

we can all know way better and still be, do stupid things...

we've all had our dumb moments... some just seem to do/be/have any of these way more often, lol

[Justneedtokno]

People can be born dumb but it’s up to that person to change that. You don’t have to continue to be ignorant. It’s not bliss as they say. I hope we are taking away mental damage, disorders, and etc. when we are looking at the spectrum of things.

[menina]

We're all dumb in some sense. No one knows everything and there are different kinds of intelligence.

So if I'm going to answer your question, I would say that we're born dumb.

[jshm2]

Neither.

Some people have mental issues they are born with. Some people are victims of bad circumstances and poor education. But then there is you, a tragedy in both regards.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Why do you always bring it on yourself?

[OlderAndWiser]

Both, I think.

[NotTacocaT6969]

Nobody is born dumb.


Their parents raised them dumb.

[XXblack88]

as far as what? common sense isn't too common anymore so in that way maybe. as far as someone with a learning disability who low function yes.

[clampfan101]

Made dumb. We often take after our parents, which simply makes some people look like they were born dumber or smarter to others at times.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Unfortunately some people are born stupid.

It's not their fault, but rather they inherited poor intellectual genes.

[Exterminatore]

Probably the former rather than the later.

[douride2]

In all honesty both apply to some people.

[Anonymous]

Intelligence is established at birth.

[Chazmatazz269]

Little bit of both.

[Anonymous]

I am born dumb.