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[Bob I]

How nice to know that it was malice and not the apparent stupidity

Just 'cause it's malice, doesn't mean they aren't stupid. ;-)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Just 'cause it's malice, doesn't mean they aren't stupid. ;-)

How right you are

 

[Nil]

How right you are

Which reminds me of the quote:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity."

Which, it turns out is not some ancient pearl of wisdom (although the
sentiment was expressed in other words by Napoleon and others) but from
1980, and is known as "Hanlon's razor."

So sayeth Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Which reminds me of the quote:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity."

Which, it turns out is not some ancient pearl of wisdom (although the
sentiment was expressed in other words by Napoleon and others) but from
1980, and is known as "Hanlon's razor."

So sayeth Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor)

I thought it was from H. L. Mencken, who was no longer alive in 1980 (d.
1956, says Wikipedia).

However, a brief look on Google implies that a lot of people have been
given credit for it.

Given that, I have decided to claim it for my own

 

[Ed Cryer]

I thought it was from H. L. Mencken, who was no longer alive in 1980 (d.
1956, says Wikipedia).

However, a brief look on Google implies that a lot of people have been
given credit for it.

Given that, I have decided to claim it for my own

It seems to me to be a version of Socrates' view; "no one ever does
wrong knowingly". And that's about 400BC.

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

It seems to me to be a version of Socrates' view; "no one ever does
wrong knowingly". And that's about 400BC.

Ed

Not quite the same, I suspect. Our modern version has a sort of 'maybe'
in it.

After all, an action might *not* be adequately explained by stupidity


BTW, I should have admitted explicitly that I seem to be wrong about
Mencken being the source.

I'm still going to claim it for my own, and given what you said, I guess
I have to add that I first said it in 400BC.

OK, I'm just being silly. Probably because it's 12:30PM here and I
haven't had lunch and coffee yet. I'll go do that and see if I get to be
more reasonable. Hm.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Not quite the same, I suspect. Our modern version has a sort of 'maybe'
in it.

After all, an action might *not* be adequately explained by stupidity


BTW, I should have admitted explicitly that I seem to be wrong about
Mencken being the source.

I'm still going to claim it for my own, and given what you said, I guess
I have to add that I first said it in 400BC.

OK, I'm just being silly. Probably because it's 12:30PM here and I
haven't had lunch and coffee yet. I'll go do that and see if I get to be
more reasonable. Hm.

Well, at his trial before 500 Athenian jurors, when asked to propose an
alternative to death that the prosecutors asked for, Socrates proposed
that he be housed and fed for free in the Town Hall, like an Olympic victor.

Stupidity, cynicism, jesting, or what??

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Well, at his trial before 500 Athenian jurors, when asked to propose an
alternative to death that the prosecutors asked for, Socrates proposed
that he be housed and fed for free in the Town Hall, like an Olympic victor.

Stupidity, cynicism, jesting, or what??

Ed

Well, at least, smarter than I am...