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Comment by neya

4 hours ago

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Hanlon's Razor is especially effective at getting Good people to put out their own eyes to keep them nice and soft targets for the malicious. I'll take being a harder to find likable by people I have no desire to be liked by to make myself a harder mark. The honest ones will understand. The malicious were never worth being close with, and I'm doing the world a service by getting the borderline enlightened.

Sufficiently advanced stupidity being indistinguishable from malice is also something to keep in mind.