Thursday, September 1, 2011

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

The author of this well-known statement is unknown. Regardless, the statement is quite true -- there are almost not secret conspiracies affecting the world. Error is far more likely than malice in almost every case.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Except the truly malicious know of that statement and so take ruthless advantage of it.

Conspiracy to commit murder? Conspiracy to commit fraud? It's only since the JFK assassination and its media response that "conspiracy theory" became associated with "crazy person wearing a tinfoil hat".

There are bad people in the world, some of them in/working for government, and sometimes they do bad things and conspire together to hide what they did and get off scot-free.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident for example was surrounded by conspiracy theory until years later it became conspiracy fact. Operation Gladio was derided as a crazy conspiracy theory for decades until 1990 when it was revealed to be true.

James C Morton said...

Indeed, and sometimes (pace weapons of mass destruction) the claim is made "gosh, I was so so so stoopid". But, in my experience, what looks like malice in everyday life is usually just ineptitude!

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