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[Phil Stracchino]

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John W. Moore III wrote:
> This reinforces My long held belief that it is impossible to
> protect folks from themselves.  :-\    Why Governments continue to waste
> Taxpayer money attempting to do so continues to frustrate Me.  Think
> Seat Belt & Motorcycle Helmet laws; those who choose to ignore the
> Safety Warnings are only jeopardizing themselves.  No One should ever be
> inconvenienced by any Authority attempting to protect  people from
> themselves.  :-D

I'll go further than that.

I put it to you that attempting to protect people from the consequences
of their own stupidity - not ignorance, which is remediable, but active
stupidity - is directly harmful to society, because by minimizing or
removing the penalty for stupidity, it encourages stupidity and
increases the preponderance of stupidity in the society.  Further, if
society takes upon itself the responsibility to protect its members of
their own stupidity, then it's only a small step to making it actionable
when its protective efforts fail against some new monumental feat of
stupidity.  Then you have people sueing, for example, lawnmower
manufacturers because it didn't occur to them that reaching under the
mowing deck with their hand to clear the discharge chute while the mower
was running might not be the best idea.

Eventually, the society's efforts to protect people from their own
stupidity come to consume so much resources, and restrict so many
rational actions, that it becomes impossible to actually do anything.

Left to their own devices, the incurably stupid tend to have a way of
removing themselves from society.  It's natural selection in action.
But if that selection mechanism is disabled, then the lower effort
involved in being stupid rather than smart conveys a competitive advantage.

In short, the more a society goes out of its way to try to protect
people from the consequences of their own stupidity, the more it breeds
the human race for still greater stupidity.


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  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
  alaric at caerllewys.net   alaric at metrocast.net   phil at co.ordinate.org
         Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
                 It's not the years, it's the mileage.
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