Thank you for the insight. I never claimed my blog to be perfect and invulnerable to attacks from different fields of view.
You show an interesting attitude towards the problem I raised here.
I consider religion to be pretty much the waste of time, but let us not indulge in this personality representing discussion that could lead to already fought flame wars.
Could intelligence directly relate to understanding of what is wrong (by understanding how it affects others) and what is right ? Because if I'm intelligent, and yet I'm a fanatic of something, and I believe that supporting that cause by killing off people is the right choice - am I still an intelligent being ? Or just crazy ? Do my genes indicate that I should be a madman then with the ability to understand technicalities of constructing a bomb and the chemistry behind it?
There is an explicit reason for why I called my blog 'Apologetic Writing' (it's also explicitly not within the context itself...).
Of course, I can see there is such a thing as talent, but I rather define it as a group of human perks, that you are either born with, or have early developed due to some events, that are boosted mostly by realizing their existence and overall meaning, and then sharpening every each and one of them with a lot of practice.
I have a few "talents", or as I love to call them, groups of perks uniformly supporting an adjacent field of mastery.
Mathematics, algorithmic thinking, art and linguistics.
None of those develop seriously over time by themselves if I don't put any time onto the subject.
I have proof of course. In the past year, after living my life with the knowledge that I can sketch OK, and even better than most people I know. I have lifted the skill by practicing more often than usually (on a daily basis I'd draw between 3-6 quick pencil sketches).
Now, withdrawing a sketch from a couple of years ago and comparing it to one I would quickly sketch in less than 10 minutes, I can tell that I got better by much.
"Many untalented people attain mastery of an art through sheer determination and effort. But geeze, talent exists all right."
- I'd rather see more of those, than of the opposite (talented, but extremely lazy).
One more thing, I thank you all for taking your precious time and reading my blog.
p.s - my gallery, if anyone wondered whether I can really draw or not, or is interested in monitoring my progress ;)
http://case0thrives.deviantart.com/
Talent is often indicative of interest level. If you like something enough to do it a lot, you'll pick up skill much faster. Arguably, that's because when you innately understand the concepts behind something you're more interested in continuing.
Could intelligence directly relate to understanding of what is wrong (by understanding how it affects others) and what is right ? Because if I'm intelligent, and yet I'm a fanatic of something, and I believe that supporting that cause by killing off people is the right choice - am I still an intelligent being ? Or just crazy ? Do my genes indicate that I should be a madman then with the ability to understand technicalities of constructing a bomb and the chemistry behind it?