It's a truism not because people are never malicious, but because we tend to see agency where there is none. Accidents are seen as intentional. This tendency le

It's a truism not because people are never malicious, but because we tend to see agency where there is none. Accidents are seen as intentional. This tendency leads to conspiracy theories, superstitions, magical thinking, etc. We're strongly biased towards interpreting hurtful actions as malice.