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Never attribute to malice what can be explained through ignorance.
by jameskilton 9y ago
Never attribute to malice what can be explained through ignorance.
- threatofrain 9y ago-- if you wish to promote a specific vision of gentle relations. However, if you're after information, then you should choose whatever is best for scientific economy. Maybe that takes you down a gentle path, and maybe it doesn't.
- rpenm 9y agoIt's just a heuristic along the lines of Occam's Razor. Competent malice is less likely than incompetence, all else being equal. Normative motivations are irrelevant.
- glibgil 9y ago> ignorance Indifference in this case. Anyone could have remembered or imagined what the day of a student is. They just didn't care