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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Hanlon's razor is and has always been bullshit.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 15 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, my apologies.

I didn't realize you were being intractable.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What? I thought we were having a respectful discussion. My bad I guess I misread the situation

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It basically just means “be kind“