Terrorist babies.

Peter Duniho wrote:

But when the name on the list matches that of an infant, it should be
obvious to even the dumbest government employee that the name on the list
refers to someone OTHER than that infant.

The available evidence would suggest you're underestimating the possible
scale of "dumbest" grin.

[...]

Idiotic behavior like this is
one of the best ways we have to getting the American public to understand
what a fiasco they have allowed to occur, and getting it fixed.

Sadly, I think you're making the same mistake again. Take a look at this
example:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050805/...p_ipsos_poll_3

According to this, 50% of the respondants to the poll view Bush as
dishonest. Further on, "almost two-thirds" view him as strong and likable.

Whichever side of that debate on which one sits, those numbers tell a funny
story. There's a nontrivial population out there that views Bush as
strong, likable, and dishonest.

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't like people that are dishonest to me
laugh.

- Andrew

"Everybody loves a villain..."


Andrew Gideon wrote in
online.com:

snip

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050805/...p_ipsos_poll_3

According to this, 50% of the respondants to the poll view Bush as
dishonest. Further on, "almost two-thirds" view him as strong and
likable.

Whichever side of that debate on which one sits, those numbers tell a
funny story. There's a nontrivial population out there that views
Bush as strong, likable, and dishonest.

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't like people that are dishonest to
me laugh.

- Andrew

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
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

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.

Is "ignorance" (mere lack of knowledge) what you really mean here,
rather than "stupidity" (inability to make sense of knowledge)?

Jose
--
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except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no universe.
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"Jose" wrote in message
...
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.

Is "ignorance" (mere lack of knowledge) what you really mean here, rather
than "stupidity" (inability to make sense of knowledge)?

All of the above. There are a number of pejoratives that apply, IMO.
However, one of the things that offends me the most are people who are NOT
stupid, but who remain willfully ignorant. They're the people I
characterize as "idiots", and they seem to make up the bulk of the
population. There's nothing wrong with their brain; they just choose not to
use it.

Pete