People choose to be stupid like they choose to eat chocolates and fast food: it's easy. Particularly if they are averse to thinking or learning. Nothing easier to make than a choice without contemplation. Plenty of people on this page are in that category, based on the ignorance on display.
Which is worse? A guy who threatens to punch you in the face if you don't give him your wallet? Or a surgeon who doesn't know what he is doing, about to cut into your daughter's brain? Hard to spot Stupid if the people doing the spotting are also stupid.
There is no "herd mind," unless you are referring to the individual who has decided to "go with the flow." That is basically an abdication of thinking. They erroneously assume that because they have made a choice, they have done so by thinking. Big lack of self awareness. But that is part of being stupid.
Your faith in younger generations would seem to be refuted by the systematic progression of the nation from relative liberty to a very evil and perverted totalitarianism. The good will prevail over evil...only if we are not stupid.
Anyone can do what if scenarios to validate their point. When you start to do this things tend to get convoluted. Of course in your scenario the stupid Dr would be worse.
I could counter with a charismatic person that appears to be decent but is out to slip something in someone's drink to then take them for their own pleasure, whatever that pleasure may be.....or a stupid guy was convinced to go rob several houses of their electronics.
We could do scenarios all day long but we would go no where. Or maybe your answer is situational?
I'm just convinced that there is a balance in all things. Nature, human behavior, ideas....there always seems to be a balance and when the balance is thrown off, forces come in to correct. Isn't that why we are all here on this site. We feel the balance is off and are trying to change that. With that line of thought (this is just my opinion) evil or stupid being worse, it doesn't matter in the end because everything gets corrected at some point.
I was just trying to clearly isolate cases of evil and stupidity. Willful ignorance and incompetence is a hallmark of stupidity, and it is not far to think of it as a form of evil. That's all the point was. Therefore, we have an obligation not to be stupid.
People choose to be stupid like they choose to eat chocolates and fast food: it's easy. Particularly if they are averse to thinking or learning. Nothing easier to make than a choice without contemplation. Plenty of people on this page are in that category, based on the ignorance on display.
Which is worse? A guy who threatens to punch you in the face if you don't give him your wallet? Or a surgeon who doesn't know what he is doing, about to cut into your daughter's brain? Hard to spot Stupid if the people doing the spotting are also stupid.
There is no "herd mind," unless you are referring to the individual who has decided to "go with the flow." That is basically an abdication of thinking. They erroneously assume that because they have made a choice, they have done so by thinking. Big lack of self awareness. But that is part of being stupid.
Your faith in younger generations would seem to be refuted by the systematic progression of the nation from relative liberty to a very evil and perverted totalitarianism. The good will prevail over evil...only if we are not stupid.
Anyone can do what if scenarios to validate their point. When you start to do this things tend to get convoluted. Of course in your scenario the stupid Dr would be worse.
I could counter with a charismatic person that appears to be decent but is out to slip something in someone's drink to then take them for their own pleasure, whatever that pleasure may be.....or a stupid guy was convinced to go rob several houses of their electronics.
We could do scenarios all day long but we would go no where. Or maybe your answer is situational?
I'm just convinced that there is a balance in all things. Nature, human behavior, ideas....there always seems to be a balance and when the balance is thrown off, forces come in to correct. Isn't that why we are all here on this site. We feel the balance is off and are trying to change that. With that line of thought (this is just my opinion) evil or stupid being worse, it doesn't matter in the end because everything gets corrected at some point.
I was just trying to clearly isolate cases of evil and stupidity. Willful ignorance and incompetence is a hallmark of stupidity, and it is not far to think of it as a form of evil. That's all the point was. Therefore, we have an obligation not to be stupid.