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Yep, hanlon's razor does not apply to centers of power, where anyone present had to fight cunningly just to get there.

• Vinnl 4y ago
  Given that these are positions that have to be filled by someone, it's also possible that they're filled by people who happened to have had the winds blowing in their direction, and that if events had been different, other people (more or less cunning) would have been there.
  • pessimizer 4y ago
    This relies on the assumption that there are powerful offices that no one wants to have, and that if they aren't filled a lottery would be run and someone picked up randomly from the street to fill those offices.
    • Vinnl 4y ago
      Why would it need no one wanting to have the positions? I just said that of the ones that do want it, the one that happens to succeed needn't necessarily succeed because of their cunning scheming - they may just have been lucky.