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Pure stupidity. Never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence and stupidity

• FpUser 5y ago
  >"Pure stupidity. Never attribute to malice..." Like drunk drivers. They were just stupid and did not mean anything bad. Right? Sorry but if part of the government stuff that creates the rules is that "smart" they should be in janitorial positions. Problem is government nearly always gets away with anything they do.
  • jdmoreira 5y ago
    A municipality is not the government. These are low level bureaucrats.
    • PedroBatista 5y ago
      It's Lisbon, these are high level bureaucrats waiting their turn to go into the Government. Low quality, but high level bureaucrats.
    • SyzygistSix 5y ago
      I would think if I was in this type of position, it would strike me as odd and a very not okay thing to do. Maybe the immersion in that kind of world creates a kind of indifference or inability to think outside of the context of bureaucratic protocols.
      • soco 5y ago
        At one time one guy sent it to some embassy on a whim of the moment, then his follower just took over the habit. Bureaucracy doesn't require much thinking.