Comment by sublinear
1 year ago
The problem is that there's about equal amounts of malice as stupidity in the world, so you never really know why. Assuming stupidity by default doesn't always make you feel better and may still lead to an emotional reaction you don't want to have.
The better solution is to not care why, and do what ya gotta do. Usually that's creating distance from the source of problems and you and your work.
> The problem is that there's about equal amounts of malice as stupidity in the world
Also, they are often connected. People who don't know something often refuse to learn it or even to hear about it. Not knowing something is stupidity, but refusing to learn is a conscious decision to be stupid in harmful ways, and that is a form of malice.
Distance is the only solution I know of when the malice is significant and it is at an all time high right now in the USA.
on that subject, compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268138