Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 07, 2025, 02:08 PMFive Universal Laws of Human Stupidity were written down by Carlo M. Cipolla in a letter distributed among his friends.
Here they are:
- Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation.
- The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Intelligence, education, or status doesn't make someone immune.- A stupid person is causes losses to other people while deriving no gain. They also incur losses themselves.
- Non-stupids always underestimate the damaging power of the stupid.
- A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. More dangerous than simple evil which knows what it does.
Interesting in that this list doesn't define what stupid even is. Just assembles a schema to assign the evils of the world to whomever fits the bill. Maybe some form of personality disorder fits the bill? Certainly the traditional definition of stupid goes right out the window with point 2.