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A comment on Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976). Parent comment

Re:Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976) by mcguire on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:23PM (#32269657)
The third law: "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."

Are you a stupid person if you do this once? Twice? Frequently? (Does anyone do it frequently?) Are any of us not stupid? And what does this have to do with the normal meaning of "stupid"?

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Re:Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976) by kelseydh on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:46PM (#32269904)
I like this way of seeing it. All of us, at some point in our lives, have acted Helpless, Intelligent, Stupid, and as Bandits. Life and growth is learning from the past and improving where the balance of your behaviour lands in each respective quadrant.
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