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minus-squarepassepartout@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up78arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoIn other words: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Although honestly, this becomes harder to apply every day.
minus-squareCyrus Draegur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·2 months agoAny sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
minus-squareMajinBlayze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·2 months agoThings get much harder to justify this way when you account for how easily malice can manufacturer stupidity for malice to hide in.
minus-squarewolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoAnd how easily stupidity nurtures hollow, fetid wounds for new malice to grow.
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoConsider your wisdom stolen with the intent to reproduce, good sir and/or ma’am.
minus-squareZeffSyde@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThat’s my favorite Isaak C. Clark quote. /S
minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAnd any sufficiently depraved malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.
minus-squareDragonstaff@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoThere’s way too much malice in the world to rely on pithy witticisms too heavily.
minus-squareArtyom@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoYou can always explain reality with that quote, you just have to realize you’ve been an optimist in your definition of stupidity.
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In other words:
Although honestly, this becomes harder to apply every day.
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Things get much harder to justify this way when you account for how easily malice can manufacturer stupidity for malice to hide in.
And how easily stupidity nurtures hollow, fetid wounds for new malice to grow.
Consider your wisdom stolen with the intent to reproduce, good sir and/or ma’am.
That’s my favorite Isaak C. Clark quote.
/S
And any sufficiently depraved malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.
There’s way too much malice in the world to rely on pithy witticisms too heavily.
You can always explain reality with that quote, you just have to realize you’ve been an optimist in your definition of stupidity.