We find that especially in Western nations that the development of the mind is of upmost importance, so that there is a subset of those that populate these Western nations that are highly intelligence, and often take pride in the fact they are knowledgeable about certain subjects at a level which is unsurpassed by virtually anyone else, except for those that are in the same sort of field. This signifies that they are able to see and to know things that most others are either completely ignorant of or simply don’t have the capacity to know. This thus gives those of such specialized intellect a definite leg up upon all those that lack such.
In life, we are responsible for our ideas and the actions that we take on behalf of those ideas applied, so that those who have high intellectual knowledge need to be cognizant that they need to be responsible to that knowledge, because not everything that we know is going to be beneficial when applied, which means that discretion is necessary to be exercised within that knowledgeable domain.
So too, those that are highly intelligent, must at the end of the day, recognize that not only do they have an innate responsibility to do right by the society that they are a member of, but that within their being there needs to be, or should be, the recognition that they must answer to the eternal soul, that all have within their being, and by doing so, this will keep them grounded and aid them in making right decisions, as opposed to the belief that because they have developed their mind so adeptly, that they need not answer to anyone or anything, because they are part of the class of people, that have applied themselves to knowledge so well, that they are thereby superior to virtually all others, and hence need not bend their ear to those that they consider to be beneath them.
Indeed, not too surprisingly the power behind the throne is often in the hands of those that are intellectually superior to the general population or even the leader of such, and because of this, they thus have far more power to effect change and to effectuate what does or does not happen, of which, when the intellect is not tempered by some sort of humility or the knowledge that their ethical soul should not be discounted or ignored, then bad and misguided decisions are the result of those that have not taken into proper account, the value of wholesome reflection.
That is to say, the knowledge of how to make and implement a device or its equivalency that is so powerful that it would be devastating to humankind if so activated or released needs to be prudentially controlled, or else in the wrong hands, it could wreak incredible and terrible havoc upon societies, which is why those that know so much, are the very same that need to comprehend that knowledge used unwisely, is the very same as knowledge that has forsaken the bounds of ethics, to become that which could be a horrible bane to society as we know it.