Maybe not the exact ones I'd have written down, but here you go:
1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation (agreed)
2. The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person (absolutely)
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. (Okay, not sure I agree here. I'd say a stupid person is someone who acts with absolute disregard for a) other people and/or b) the future. And by future I mean anything longer than five minutes from now)
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. (The triumph of hope over experience)
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. (Totally correct: the inconsistency and randomness of stupid people are what make them so destructive.)
Can one break the law of stupidity if one is stupid? And what is the punishment for breaking that law?
ReplyDeleteA problem is that too many people abide by the "laws of stupidity" and therefore feel "good" about themselves.
Which just proves that they are stupid, I guess.