Malicious people made up that saying, wanting us to keep giving them the benefit of the doubt as they destroy us. Why, when people are doing harmful things, should we assume they're acting out of ignorance or stupidity rather than malice? We know there are psychopaths and evil people in the world.
[–] 24704132? 4 points -3 points 1 point (+1|-4) ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
[–] 24705021? 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Big nope.
Huge nope.
Alex Jones is 100% cointelpro.
[–] 24706802? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Malicious people made up that saying, wanting us to keep giving them the benefit of the doubt as they destroy us. Why, when people are doing harmful things, should we assume they're acting out of ignorance or stupidity rather than malice? We know there are psychopaths and evil people in the world.