While Democratic legislators, victims of Jeffrey Epstein and their lawyers have complained about the number of blacked-out pages and passages in the files released by the U.S. Department of Justice, internet sleuths have figured out ways to un-redact some of the documents.
Has the system been keeping us down, or are the ppl in charge just stupid and greedy?
This is a false choice, it’s both. Not all of them are (or were) stupid. But the system is intentionally like this because people are greedy. For money and power.
Well, I felt you were drawing relevance away from the initial intent of the quoted maxim. Regardless, looks like I might have overreacted. Let’s just chalk this up to internet comments.
Hanlon’s razor is and has always been bullshit.
It’s always held true for me. Malice - or forethought - require intelligence, something that’s in much shorter supply than anybody would believe.
Stupid usually explains most everything adequately.
Is it, though? Has the system been keeping us down, or are the ppl in charge just stupid and greedy? Assigning intent makes the unfairness sting less.
This is a false choice, it’s both. Not all of them are (or were) stupid. But the system is intentionally like this because people are greedy. For money and power.
Oh, my apologies.
I didn’t realize you were being intractable.
What? I thought we were having a respectful discussion. My bad I guess I misread the situation
Well, I felt you were drawing relevance away from the initial intent of the quoted maxim. Regardless, looks like I might have overreacted. Let’s just chalk this up to internet comments.
It basically just means “be kind“
That’s true of many rules/razors… I wonder if there’s a rule/razor about not putting too much faith in things like murphys law and occams razor.