• spaceghoti
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    58 months ago

    Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

    • Spaghetti_Hitchens
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      108 months ago

      Generally a good rule of thumb for a first reaction; however, never forget that malice does exist.

      • spaceghoti
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        18 months ago

        Of course. The point is not to disregard malice at all times. It’s to make sure you’re not dealing with simple incompetence before you land on malice as the root cause.

    • Zorque
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      18 months ago

      Easily the best way to underestimate an ideological opponent.

      The world is more complicated than just malice and stupidity.