Compassion demands greater intelligence than cruelty because cruelty to children requires little more than picking up a rod and beating them, but compassion requires understanding the root causes of their behaviour and providing safe spaces for them to talk about themselves.

Good leaders leave the world a better place for all, most especially for those at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale. Bad leaders leave the world a better place for themselves, their family, friends and enablers.

Loving nations believe you are beautiful. Hateful nations declare you are ugly. Loving societies say you are virtuous. Hateful societies state you are evil. Loving cultures assert you are a saint. Hateful cultures proclaim you are a sinner.

What kind of world do we want to live in? A world in which we resolve our differences like intelligent beings blessed with the magic of language? Or a world in which we settle our differences with fists, fangs, bullets or bombs?

Ceausescu is infamous because he terrorized millions. Lincoln is legendary because he liberated millions. Great leaders liberate people while monstrous leaders crush their people.

The Kim family are infamous for their luxurious lives while their people starve. Martin Luther King is legendary because he inspired millions. Great leaders develop people's strengths, virtues, minds and hearts, while horrible leaders starve their people.

Stalin is infamous for his gulag forcing millions into slave labour. Mandela is legendary for surviving prison, before leading his people out of apartheid. Great leaders forgive their enemies and move on to empower the most vulnerable while terrible leaders punish the most vulnerable.

Hitler is infamous because he slaughtered millions. Churchill is legendary but because he protected millions. Good leaders help their people overcome bad leaders.

Empathy is perhaps the greatest cognitive challenge because it takes far more intelligence to understand what it is like to be a bat, cat, rat or a gnat than is necessary to kill them. After all, lizards have the brains to kill them.

Before we are religious or irreligious, we are human beings endowed with the innate intelligence to learn everything we need to learn to decide what we are willing to believe and not believe.

Love produces feel good chemicals (i.e., dopamine and oxytocin) in the lover's brain. Hate produces stress chemicals (i.e., cortisol) in the hater's brain.

Do you want to live in a world that cares for its sick people simply because they are humans who need a helping hand? Or do you want to live in a world that cares for sick people because it is profitable?

A legendary character once said the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Therefore, the needs of students outweigh the needs of millionaires. - 58 million millionaires vs 1.2 to 1.3 billion primary and secondary students.

Intelligent leaders simply accept responsibility for mistakes because they understand this is the first step to fixing problems. Unintelligent leaders blame others for every mistake because they have no clue how to solve problems.

Love befriends - hate bullies. Love listens - hates lectures. Love is kind - hate is mean. Love makes us happy - hate makes us angry.

Do we want to live in a world where we use our incredible intelligence to solve our problems and conflicts without violence? Or are we happy to live in a world where we use our incredible intelligence to create more and more destructive weapons?

Good leaders do not mock the disabled, they do not slander the weak and vulnerable, they do not disparage women, men, minorities. Heartless leaders mock the weak and vulnerable, they ridicule the disabled and they slander minorities.

The greatest love imaginable loves everyone whether female, male, intersex or transexual, black, white, brown or albino, gay, straight, trans, queer or otherwise. The feeblest love possible loves only those who look, walk, talk and smell like us.

It takes greater intelligence to be kind than is required to be mean. If you doubt me, consider Komodo dragons have the cognitive sophistication to be nasty to others, but lack the cognitive sophistication to be kind.

What kind of world do we want to live in? A world dedicated to developing the minds of every girl and boy? Or a world that denies most people have a brain? Perhaps a world where profiteers are in charge of developing the minds of girls and boys?

Great leaders improve the lives of their people (i.e., Lincoln and Mandela). Terrible leaders improve their own lives at the expense of their people (i.e., Kim, Assad, Hussein, etc).

Love says, "You are from the other side of the planet. I have never been there. Please tell me what it is like?" Hate says, "Go back home *&^%$ alien."

Loving societies use a percentage of their profits to help the weakest and poorest people address their troubles so they can flourish alongside the richest and strongest. Greedy societies divert all profits to the richest and strongest, leaving the weak and poor to perish.

What kind of world do we want to live in? A world that simply takes care of sick people because human wellbeing is paramount? Or a world that exploits sick people for maximum profits?

Great leaders do not need to broadcast themselves and their achievements because their actions speak for themselves. Terrible leaders boast of their achievements and erect monuments to themselves because they fear historians won't.

Compassionate cultures help their people beginning with the weakest, sickest, most vulnerable. Callous cultures trust the whims of fate to sort it out. Cruel cultures punish people for being poor, sick, lonely, or disabled.

Before we are gay, straight, bi, trans or otherwise, we are human beings blessed with inalienable cognitive function like creative and critical thinking.

It takes more intelligence to help others than is necessary to hurt others. Consider the mighty crocodile has the cognitive sophistication to savagely assault another croc, but you will never see them helping an injured peer.

Loving nations celebrate teachers or professors. Hateful nations execute teachers and professors.

Loving nations invest in schools, colleges and universities. Hateful nations bomb schools, colleges and university.

Loving nation open their arms to humans seeking relief. Hateful nations shoot unarmed people seeking safety.

Loving nations honour their doctors, nurses and lab technicians. Hateful nations persecute doctors, nurses and lab technicians.

Human intelligence is amazing because neuroscience discovered that being kind to others stimulates dopamine production in the brain which induces feelings of happiness, so conservatives should try being kind to immigrant, maybe befriend an LGBT human.

Do we want to live in a society that cares about our happiness? Or a world that is content with our misery? If we desire the former, perhaps we should listen to positive psychologists instead of bombastic preachers and politicians.

If we give a million dollars a corporation or billionaire, half of that money goes to stock buy backs and executive bonuses. If we give a $1000 to a 1000 poor people, 100% of that money goes into the local economy because those people must pay their bills and buy food.

It takes far more intelligence to help people than it does to assault them. If you doubt me, consider the mighty crocodile has the cognitive sophistication to savagely assault another crocodile. In fact, they will happily cannibalize smaller crocs.

Loving nations build hospitals, clinics, labs and research centres. Hateful nations bomb hospitals, clinics, labs and research programs. Loving societies support doctors, nurses, technicians and researchers. Hateful societies execute doctors, nurses, technicians and researchers.

The greatest leaders in history, i.e., Lincoln, Mandela, King, worked to empower the most vulnerable and powerless. The worst leaders, i.e., Hitler, al-Assad, Ceausescu, etcetera, worked to empower and enrich themselves.

It is said the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Therefore, the needs of malnourished children exceed the needs of billionaires. - 3028 billionaires vs 45 million starving children.

Good leaders inspire hope. Bad leaders instill fear. Good leaders build trust. Bad leaders destroy trust.

Love builds schools, libraries, colleges and universities. Hate destroys schools, libraries, colleges and universities. Love venerates teachers and professors. Hate vilifies teachers and professors.

Do we want to live in a world that genuinely cares about childhood development? Or a world that doesn't care about nurturing children? We have known since Freud that childhood shapes adults, and yet we glorify dollars over development.

Love builds hospitals, clinics, labs and research centres. Hate destroys hospitals, clinics, labs and research centres. Love treasures doctors, nurses, technicians and medical scientists. Hate demonizes doctors, nurses, technicians and medical scientists.

Do we want to live in a world where we use the magic of language to resolve our differences? Or do we want to ignore our unique ability to use words to resolve our disputes so we can act like wild animals who must fight or flee?

Loving societies use a percentage of their profits to help the weakest and poorest people address their troubles so they can flourish alongside the richest and strongest. Greedy societies divert all profits to the richest and strongest, leaving the weak and poor to perish.

Before we are male or female, we are human beings with amazing brains capable to expressing our thoughts, feelings, insights, ideas, and imaginings.

Human intelligence is amazing because it is rational and emotional, factual and fictional, sceptical and superstitious, passionate and apathetic, prejudiced and impartial. It is all these things and more, much more.

Good leaders hold themselves to a higher standard because they understand they are role models. Bad leaders demand everyone adhere to a higher stand while they do whatever the please whenever they please however they please.

Loving countries welcome visitors, immigrants and refugees to their midst. Hateful countries spurn visitors, immigrants and refugees.

Do we want world that values people? Or a world that demonizes people? A world that recognizes we have our virtues beginning with the ability to learn which means we can improve. A world that obsesses over our faults and failings, demanding perfect behaviour and perfect actions 24/7.