[NoOnesLaughingNow] Secret Power and Secret Weakness

Stamets@lemmy.world · 4 天前

passepartout@feddit.org · edit-2 4 天前

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Although honestly, this becomes harder to apply every day.

Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee · 4 天前

Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

MajinBlayze@lemmy.world · 4 天前

Things get much harder to justify this way when you account for how easily malice can manufacturer stupidity for malice to hide in.

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 3 天前

And how easily stupidity nurtures hollow, fetid wounds for new malice to grow.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 天前

Consider your wisdom stolen with the intent to reproduce, good sir and/or ma’am.

ZeffSyde@lemmy.world · 3 天前

That’s my favorite Isaak C. Clark quote.

/S

GraniteM@lemmy.world · 3 天前

And any sufficiently depraved malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Dragonstaff@leminal.space · 3 天前

There’s way too much malice in the world to rely on pithy witticisms too heavily.

Artyom@lemm.ee · 3 天前

You can always explain reality with that quote, you just have to realize you’ve been an optimist in your definition of stupidity.