What is your guiding religion/philosophy, if you choose to have one?
I tend to embrace a mostly scientific view of the world. I study the how and the what, but as far as why everything is the way it is? I don't believe there is a reason. We happen to exist because of a long chain of extraordinary circumstances, but there's no purpose behind it. We will strive to procreate and survive as long as possible, as instinct dictates, and then we will die. That's the meaning of life.
I know that sounds like I feel bleak and hopeless about life, but that's not true at all! Having no pre-set purpose that you're trying to fulfill gives you the freedom to forge your own destiny and find your own meaning, and I think that is a beautiful thing.
What is your opinion on being naked in public?
Intellectually, I think that being ashamed of your own body is absurd (after all, what could be more natural?) and I'm fairly disgusted with the church for instituting the whole nudity/sex taboo, but that taboo does exist -and it's ingrained deep- so I would find myself deeply uncomfortable being naked in front of a lot of strangers. To be honest though, the thing that would be
making me so uncomfortable would be not knowing whether it was okay that I had an erection.
Have you ever participated in acts of arson or vandalism, and if so, why?
Except for perhaps a few tiny cases, I never really got into either of those. My crimes were always the ones that benefited me directly, like theft or consuming things that altered my mental state -to put it delicately. All of that is in the past now, or at least the theft is. I decided that I wanted to strive to always become a better person, someone I could be proud of, so I stopped stealing, stopped pissing on toilet seats, and started dealing crack.
If you were given the choice to destroy a continent of your choosing, what would you choose to do?
This one is throwing me for a bit of a loop, I could just destroy Antarctica since it doesn't do anything for anybody (aside from the whole delicate meteorological balance thing), but that feels like the coward's way out. After all, there's not much at stake -relatively speaking- if Antarctica is lost. No, let's focus on the heavily populated continents. I wouldn't just destroy one all willy-nilly, that would just be chaos for chaos' sake. Instead I think I would use the
threat of that power rather than the power itself. I would force the nations to appease me, lest they be destroyed. The only problem is, nobody would believe I could do it unless I actually did it, and then I couldn't do it again. Hmm... okay, so I guess I
would destroy Antarctica to show the rest of the world that I mean business, and then hope I can bluff my way through the rest.
Okay, now I've got a question for you guys: What do you think about eugenics? Obviously it's been taken to unnecessary extremes in the past, but what if it were executed in a humane, positive way? What if only the best of the best were approved? Think what our species would be like in a few generations if all our offspring were descended from the best humanity has to offer.
As for me, the only trait I really care about is intelligence. That's the eugenics program I would start, one focused entirely on evolving the mind.
This makes me curious: as I mentioned before, I've never actually met another INTP and I'm wondering how far the similarities actually go. What aspects of our personalities are common INTP traits, and which are unique qualities and idiosyncrasies that have a different origin? Or, to put it another way, tell me about yourself.
