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minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoI guess there is the old “never assign to malice what can be adequately be explained by stupidity” to consider.
minus-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoDo you find it adequate?
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoI’d say never rule out just stupid. Even when you try and make something idiot proof, nature just invents a better idiot. Conspiracies are hard to hold together as people are leaky. I find easier to believe in mass stupidity than mass conspiracies.
I guess there is the old “never assign to malice what can be adequately be explained by stupidity” to consider.
Do you find it adequate?
I’d say never rule out just stupid. Even when you try and make something idiot proof, nature just invents a better idiot. Conspiracies are hard to hold together as people are leaky. I find easier to believe in mass stupidity than mass conspiracies.