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They can be hard to tell apart. Evil people often operate through stupid people because it's relatively easy to lie to, confuse, and manipulate stupid people. A
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
They can be hard to tell apart. Evil people often operate through stupid people because it's relatively easy to lie to, confuse, and manipulate stupid people. And/or intelligent people with stupid beliefs. (Which applies to virtually everyone.)
From the outside, the UI of evil often looks like stupidity.
- etripe 5y agoThanks for planting the image in my head of an evil empire behind a Geocities site. Just a small thing to add: you can be highly intelligent and still gullible or conformist. A lot of the evils in the world are also caused by those: naivité and peer pressure.