"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by Carlo M. Cipolla

[Zatoichi]

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidity.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_basic_laws_of_human_stupidity

The Laws of Stupidity

Zeroth Law
There is no upper bound on the amount of stupidity that can exist within any particular individual.

First Law
We always underestimate the number of stupid people.

Second Law
The probability of a person being stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Third (and Golden) Law
A stupid person is someone who causes damage to another person, or a group of people, without any advantage accruing to himself (or herself) -- or even with some resultant self-damage.

Fourth Law
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid people. They constantly forget that at any moment, and in any circumstance, associating with stupid people invariably constitutes an expensive mistake.

Fifth Law
A stupid person is the most dangerous person in existence.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Grey's_Law

Grey's Law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when incompetent people not only fail to realise their incompetence, but consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. Basically - they're too stupid to know that they're stupid.

 

[tonychat]

it is kind of referring to sinkies.

But there is one law i like to created here for sinkies:
sinkie stupid law:
Sinkies bend down and let the govt screwed and yet still smile and ask them if you are screwing them comfortably.

That is a very dangerous person to be with. That is why i stay away from sinkies in whatever cost.

look at how the sinkieland is doing now... pretty fuck up when you talk about real human living and having a real life.

 

[arainz]

People are stupid, they will believe something because they want it to be true; or they're afraid it might be true.

Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe its true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

Quote from "wizards first rule" by Terry Goodkind