On 8/30/2014 10:04 AM, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:10:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Napoleon BonaparteTrue in casual setting, but false in professional field. Incompetence is equivalent to malice there.
I admit: I would never claim that malice isn't common. It certainly is, *especially* where suit-type professions occur (mba's, sales, etc).
It's just that I'm also convinced that stupidity, OTOH, is freaking *pandemic*.
Plus, if you ask me, a certain amount of stupidity is a necessary component of malice. If someone's being malicious about something, it's difficult to imagine there isn't *some* form of stupidity swimming around in their line of reasoning (if there even is a line of reasoning at all. And if not...well, lack of reasoning *is* a classic form of stupidity).
