Q&A: Is he lacking intelligence, or lacking morality, or lacking values, or lacking all of them together?
Is he lacking intelligence, or lacking morality, or lacking values, or lacking all of them together?
Question
I was thinking about a person who is ostensibly impressive, yet with all his might supports a political side that is dangerous to the Jewish people—immediately, and all the more so in the long term. (Judging from what will remain after the moral and ethical destruction that the political side he supports may impose here.)
I reflected and thought that a person who has these 3 qualities:
1. Morality on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the highest) — someone who has above 4
2. Values on a scale of 1 to 10 (same idea) — someone who has above 4
3. Intelligence (knowledge, perception, and reasonable judgment of reality as it is, together with the forward-looking implications) on a scale of 1 to 10 (same idea) — someone who has above 4
An acronym: MVI.
Someone who has at least 4 in all the above parameters would not be able to support the side of destroying the nation.
Am I right in that assumption?
And if so, that means that apparently in at least 1 of these parameters he has a low score (if not in all of them together). Is that a reasonable reason to avoid giving him work that mainly requires intelligence? (For example, representing me as a lawyer) and to choose someone else?
Or is it not advisable for me to mix things that are unrelated? (Or is it actually exactly related?)
Also, maybe he is spot-on in intelligence, and only deeply flawed in morality and values?
Answer
I didn’t understand a thing. The wording is vague, the concepts are similar and it isn’t clear what the difference is between them (values, morality), and the acronyms are unclear.
If you are the one who asked the parallel question about handing over a cup of water, see my answer there.
And more generally, see Column 372.