Are well-educated people more cruel than blue collar workers with a mere high school diploma and some technical education? As a general rule, I would answer yes and here is why.
First, a qualifier: I am not anti-education, formal or informal, school-provided or self-educated. Nor am I anti-reason. All educators need to encourage students, of all ages, to self-realize, be curious, loving learning, asking endless questions, be skeptical, reading wide and taking courses forever.
Education and the use of reason are value-neutral tools to reach any end, or one's tailored ends: To become quite accomplished, to work hard and smart, to seek a good job and to hold onto it, for nation-loving, God-loving, in short growing into being a person of substance, quality, love and integrity.
Highly educated people served Hitler and committed monstrous crimes in his name. If their degrees and advanced degrees did not make this way, what did?
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