That would be stupidity".
I think for this one we need Hanlon's famous razor: don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
All this has been further evidence for Jonathan Chait's argument that Romney not so secretly thinks voters are basically fairly stupid, or at least that they can be won over with stupidity and superficial appeals like "I like grits".
Patriarchy's boomerang stupidity can be seen clearly here: men tell women not to "put out" easily and to only have sex within a relationship – that anything else is filthy and slutty.
"I like being some place where stupidity can be fatal, because here you work with people who think about their actions," said Rich, who asked for security reasons that only his first name be used.
The best chapter belongs to the Professor, who has discovered that "in the United States a simulation of stupidity can be highly useful in generating camaraderie's bovinely democratic heat".
So extreme can these mannerisms become that the experience of reading "Stupidity" can be a bit unnerving: the book's central concept often seems as useful to describe the irrelevancies and flaws of the text as, some may find, to describe the limitations of this particular critic.
Although I am a firm believer in Hanlon's Razor – "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" – I am struggling to see how the incomplete hard fork can be simply due to poor code and/or thoughtlessness, since it is clearly severely disadvantageous to those who chose to remain on the "old chain".
Yahoo Answers replied, "The difference between bravery and stupidity can be very narrow.
When you are with people who share your values and goals, treat them with respect, show appreciation, listen to them, don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity, and, last but not least, think before you speak, great things can happen.
