The Universal Laws of Human Stupidity

I think that most of the people who have been featured here shared the same propensity for being stupid because they all believed the same crap that got them dead.

Officially it's called the Dunning-Kruger effect and it appears to be widespread.

The following article (which I believe is supposed to be satire, but really isn't) outlines the 5 universal laws of human stupidity, all of which we have seen demonstrated by these utterly stupid people.

The Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity

The stupid, in comparison, are paragons of consistency, acting at all times with unyielding idiocy.

How many people do you know who qualify? I know a couple. I'm surprised they've survived adulthood to honest. One of them being my former brother in law, a man so stupid I'm stunned to know he still breathes.

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Dip Dibbler

Jun 03, 2022

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Does this lead us to consider that the notion stated in the 'Declaration of Independence" is false and hypocritical?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

These are disingenuous noble-sounding words, perhaps designed to lay a misleading foundation. These words were written by White men, no doubt all xtians, who were slaveholders, slave traders, and squatting on lands recently being stolen from the indigenous. Premeditated plans to expand that land base by continuing their genocidal practices existed. Through the general consensus of what came to be known as Manifest Destiny did the dispossession of self, lands, and liberty of the indigenous become national policy and practice. These practices were stupid and beyond stupid inflicting harm and legitimizing "Crimes against humanity"

In those times and previously, debates took place that usually concluded that non-whites were not human, but subhuman and so they were treated as such by the colonists/Americans. As well, they were xtians who through their arrogance and bigotry, whose proclamations from atop their pedestal of holier than thou self-righteousness, put non-believers in lower social strata. Among xtians existed also interdenominational prejudices.

From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”—including the “heathen” natives already here. Moreover, while it is true that the vast majority of early-generation Americans were Christian, the pitched battles between various Protestant sects and, more explosively, between Protestants and Catholics, present an unavoidable contradiction to the widely held notion that America is a “Christian nation.” Smithsonian

In newly independent America, there was a crazy quilt of state laws regarding religion. In Massachusetts, only Christians were allowed to hold public office, and Catholics were allowed to do so only after renouncing papal authority. In 1777, New York State’s constitution banned Catholics from public office (and would do so until 1806). In Maryland, Catholics had full civil rights, but Jews did not. Delaware required an oath affirming belief in the Trinity. Several states, including Massachusetts and South Carolina, had official, state-supported churches. Smithsonian

Again, addressing the topic of equality, it is simply not true. Individual Humans have aptitudes and talents that are unequal and not universal across humanity.