If Nazis were so bad, why did most of them have IQs well above 100 during the Nuremberg trials?

Answer 1

Being clever does NOT automatically make you a good person.

Answer 2

Note, none of them served on the front lines, they were smart enough to stay out of that thrashing. The intelligent don't fight they get idiots to fight for them.

Answer 3

Morality and intelligence are two different things.

Answer 4

You do realize that being smart does not automatically equate to being good... right?

Answer 5

They were perverted geniuses.

Answer 6

Moral character and IQ are mutually exclusive characteristics that far too many seem to conflate. Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and numerous other criminals, gangsters, and tyrannical despots throughout history have had above average to genius level intelligence. But that isn't much consolation to the people that they victimized, is it?

Answer 7

Why would you think IQ has anything to do with being bad or not?

Answer 8

What use is a high IQ if someone is morally defective?

Answer 9

Ted Bundy had an IQ of 136.

Answer 10

Cite your source.