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The five universal laws of human stupidity

by awl130 on 6/18/17, 11:01 PM with 10 comments

• by theonemind on 6/19/17, 3:39 AM

  http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...

  The article doesn't have much substance besides long quotes from the original, and the original reads better.

• by WheelsAtLarge on 6/19/17, 1:46 AM

  Law 2 is specially right. Stupid appears in every segment of society. And stupid never knows they are stupid.

  I would say one can be a genius in one part but totally clueless in another. IQ doesn't guarantee you a free ride.

• by oxplot on 6/19/17, 5:35 AM

  On a related topic, competence, I have come to realise over time that I and many people I know have a bias towards people in professions they don't know much about, believing that most of them are good at their jobs. Reality is that as the case with general population, majority are incompetent, careless, and well, downright stupid. Be it doctors with a decade long training/education, plumbers, lawyers, programmers, etc.

• by squozzer on 6/20/17, 3:46 PM

  "We can do nothing about the stupid." Sure we can -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)