Morality

[Viking]

Well chopping someones arms is an action not a behavior. The behavior is aggression, an extreme, the opposite extreme of which is timidity, the middle of which is something along the lines of confident.

It's not aggression, it's punishment for a transgression (stealing). The thief was the aggressor.

"We are going to disregard all ethics and study for pure knowledge! There is no evil, except standing in the path of progress!"

I don't think the concept of human progress is inherent to intellectualism.

"Everyone who is not intelligent enough should be forcibly sterilised"

Anti-Intellectualism and Intellectualism taken to an extreme (Such as advocating for the removal of stupid people) both stem from the desire to create a superior category of people (philosophically or academically or in some other abstract way) who are defined less by what they are, and more by what they are not. Its Nazism, quite frankly. The details don't matter that much.



And in my most humble and often controversial opinion, dogmatic religious zealotry often does the exact same thing. Its the original thing, if you will. That's the double-edged sword of faith. You can organize your society, you can give it morals, but you can also make them judgemental zealots who spread fear and hate of the "other". Is it a stretch to say a society organized by faith in science runs the same risks? Especially a society where the majority don't have the personal knowledge to appreciate the finer points of skepticism and acceptance?

Hmmm...

This sounds more like intellIGENCEism. Same category as racism, speciesism and so on.