How about our POS president!!!

[Paul27]

Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Stupidity is a variable that remains constant across all populations. Every category one can imagine; gender, race, nationality, education level, income - possesses a fixed percentage of stupid people. There are stupid college professors. There are stupid people at Davos and at the UN General Assembly. There are stupid people in every nation on earth. How numerous are the stupid amongst us? It’s impossible to say. And any guess would almost certainly violate the first law.

 

[Paul27]

Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Cipolla called this one the Golden Law of Stupidity. A stupid person, according to the economist, is one who causes problems for others without any clear benefit to himself.

The uncle unable to stop himself from posting fake news articles to Facebook? Stupid.
The stupid, are paragons of consistency, acting at all times with unyielding idiocy. Consistent stupidity is the only consistent thing about the stupid. This is what makes stupid people so dangerous.

Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behavior. An intelligent person may understand the logic of a bandit. The bandit’s actions follow a pattern of rationality: nasty rationality, if you like, but still rationality. The bandit wants a plus on his account. Since he is not intelligent enough to devise ways of obtaining the plus as well as providing you with a plus, he will produce his plus by causing a minus to appear on your account. All this is bad, but it is rational and if you are rational you can predict it. You can foresee a bandit’s actions, his nasty maneuvers and ugly aspirations and often can build up your defenses.

With a stupid person all this is absolutely impossible as explained by the Third Basic Law. A stupid creature will harass you for no reason, for no advantage, without any plan or scheme and at the most improbable times and places. You have no rational way of telling if and when and how and why the stupid person attacks. When confronted with a stupid individual you are completely at his mercy.

 

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[Paul27]

Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances, to deal with and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

We underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril.

 

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[Paul27]

Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

And its corollary: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

We can do nothing about the stupid. The difference between societies that collapse under the weight of stupid citizens, and societies that thrive, are the makeup of the non-stupid citizens. Those societies progress because they possess a high proportion of people acting intelligently. Capable people who counterbalance the stupid people’s losses by bringing about gains for themselves and their fellow citizens.

Declining societies have the same percentage of stupid people as successful ones. But they also have high percentages of helpless people and “an alarming proliferation of the bandits with overtones of stupidity.”

Such change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the stupid fraction and makes societal decline a certainty. “And the country goes to Hell.”

 

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P27, I see you are coming around

I'm glad that you have tried to seek help.

Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

And its corollary: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

We can do nothing about the stupid. The difference between societies that collapse under the weight of stupid citizens, and societies that thrive, are the makeup of the non-stupid citizens. Those societies progress because they possess a high proportion of people acting intelligently. Capable people who counterbalance the stupid people’s losses by bringing about gains for themselves and their fellow citizens.

Declining societies have the same percentage of stupid people as successful ones. But they also have high percentages of helpless people and “an alarming proliferation of the bandits with overtones of stupidity.”

Such change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the stupid fraction and makes societal decline a certainty. “And the country goes to Hell.”

 

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