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A Boring Dystopia
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Most of them voted pro-capitalist their entire adult life, though.
Being stupid is not a punishable offence
It is when so many people stupid together that it systematically starts kill them. Is it a 3rd party punishment? Nope, it's FAFO on a national scale. Unfortunately it's going to be epic in just how much suffering it causes.
I think this is the capitalists exploiting and discarding the workers once they are unable to perform work. This is the system working as intended.
Add some propaganda, lack of alternative etc. and you get this.
Global scale, at least the FO part of it
At some point it is. It’s self-punishing, though. Problem being is the context of that stupidity affecting society as a whole and dragging the rest of us down with them. As a society we should have the ability to erect guardrails to help even the willfully stupid, but the stupid do their best to eliminate any such aid.
If your stupidity hurts someone else, yes that is bad.
Of course it isn't, but I'm not gonna feel bad when the people that advocated for drinking battery acid die with a hole in their stomachs.
Sure it us, you:re seeing it in action.
I mean there are consequences
I sometimes think it should be since most stupid people are stupid of their own volition.
Killing is.
Yes it is
Then why are you still here?
Oooh good one
No, I'm serious. Every one of us is stupid most of the time. There's no way you're an expert in every possible thing you come across everyday.
So if stupidity hurts, why are you here? Why are any of us left?
What are you even saying?
Are you arguing stupidity would be selectively bred out or are you saying that stupidity is not punishable with punishment being a social construct of repurcussion not natural selection?
Stupid is punished. If it should be or not is worth arguing maybe, I believe it should be in some cases not all. If you deny science go for it, if you dont know your multiplication tables so be it.
I'm saying that most of the time stupidity has no consequence, and that's ok.
We're all stupid a vast majority of the time. If we imposed punishment for that, we would all be dead.
Ignorance =/= stupidity
And not being an expert in something doesn't make you stupid. I prefer to think of stupidity as "poor critical thinking and reasoning skills"
And people do that every day. It's stupid to think otherwise.