1) People with higher IQ have greater self regulation (yes)
2) People with higher IQ have less incentive to act immoraly. (yes) Partly because they associate with people who also have higher IQs, have higher chances of being caught, but have greater opportunities for reciprocity.
3) People with higher IQ commit fewer crimes.
We MIGHT argue that the distribution of immorality is normal, but the evidence that we act upon it otherwise.
It’s the same reason so many sociopaths are indistinguishable from normal, happy, succesful people: it’s just in everyone’s benefit, especially your own, to act morally, because cooperation is so much more rewarding than immorality and crime.
So no, eugenics has been profoundly successful everywhere in every civ. Read Harpending on “Genetic Pacification” and any other study of the decline inc riminality in europ with manorialism and hanging.
Read what rice farming does to behavior.
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