"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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The available evidence would suggest you're underestimating the possible
scale of "dumbest" grin.

Yeah, I thought about that after I wrote those words. I have multiple
personality disorder when it comes to generalizations about the human race.

On the one hand, I really do want to think well of the average human being.
On the other hand, I often have this sinking feeling that a very large
proportion of the human population are just idiots, and that the limits to
their ignorance have yet to be found. The latter thought makes the former
very hard to maintain, and seems the predominant one many days.

That said, if you read my post carefully, I did not actually say that things
were as they should be. Simply that they SHOULD be that way. Likewise,
just because something is one of the best ways to get something fixed, that
doesn't mean that getting things fixed is actually possible.

Pete