{"id":1967,"date":"2003-11-20T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T02:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/20\/human-stupidity\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:47:47","slug":"human-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/20\/human-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalsoup.com\/mentalsoup\/basic.htm\" title=\"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity\">The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity<\/a>, by Carlo M. Cipolla:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.<\/li>\n<li>The probability that a certain person will be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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 and\/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.<\/li>\n<li>A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.\n<ul>\n<li>Corrolary: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrykindall.com\/2003\/november.asp#6\" title=\"Thursday 11\/6\/03\">Jerry Kindall<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}