There was a research paper in 2011 and And this research team looked at drug addicts and drug abusers 4,000 people. They found that the biggest Addicts had the highest intelligence that you were twice as likely to become an abuser and addict If you were any kind of intelligent quintile quantile they were measuring. The smarter you are the more you can convince yourself that when you're doing bad things you're actually doing good things Even if you're doingbad things to yourself or bad things to other people that you really may actually care about. He seems like a brilliant guy I think that to some extent he may actually believe that the end justifies the means.