While web searching for Bonhoeffers treatise on stupidity I came across this short essay on "The North State Journal" website: written by one J. R. Miller.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I am familiar with Bonhoeffer and some of his books/quotes. Like Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil and the stupid person follower that led to the rise of Hitler.
Are you familiar with Carlo Cipolla & The Five Fundamental Laws of Stupidity?
Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristics of that person.
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.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Corollary: A stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.
Weltansicht
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July 12, 2022
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Yes I am familiar with the 5 fundamental laws of stupidity. I came across a video of that on you tube several months ago and posted it here somewhere. Although I have to admit I would not have been able to give the name Carlo Cipolla if asked who came up with that concept. I agree with it fully.
Isn't it stupid to pillage?
I have done some stupid things so I know what stupid is. As a matter of fact I would not be alive today if someone were not helping me through some of my stupid episodes.
How do you see stupidity?
@FrankZeleniuk Not sure. Seems to me the Black Friday sales day is pillaging.
Now if you pillage as a viking, well, that's a life choice. If you are a maurader because of necessity, that's a choice of life or die.
I see stupidity as “Stupid is as stupid does”, meaning that a person should be judged by his actions, not his appearance.
I don't think people are stupid but can act stupid or be stupid. You may not be smart or educated but kind of like from the movie Animal House ~ "Fat Drunk and Stupid Is No Way To Go Through Life Son"
@FrankZeleniuk All of us are human and we all make stupid mistakes from time to time. For the purposes of this discussion we are talking about people or a person who who repeatedly and consistently says and does stupid things. Firs thing to keep in mind however that there is no real correlation between Stupidity and IQ.
So here are the 5...
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
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Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
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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 himself.
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Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
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A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Corollary: a stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.
As is evident from the third law, Cipolla identifies two factors to consider when exploring human behavior:
Benefits and losses that an individual causes to him or herself.
Benefits and losses that an individual causes to others.
@iThink perimeters remind me of someone hmmmm 
I was never ambitious. I just wanted to enjoy living. I found that a hard enough challenge.
FrankZeleniuk
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in that regard I think you and I are part of a vast majority of mankind.
Thought just occurred:
Coming down to brass tacks, to live or attempt to live by certain principles and to to act on those principles are two completely different things. I plead guilty as charged.
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