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by DrScump 3817 days ago
Most are uninformed (often due to intellectual laziness) rather than stupid.

"Stupid" implies that they make bad choices after being fully informed, which is often unproven.

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> "Stupid" implies that they make bad choices after being fully informed, which is often unproven.

I don't think this is a particularly universal definition. Willful ignorance that negatively impacts your own understanding of the world has always seemed to me to be very reasonably defined as stupidity.