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What pointless drivel.

The author starts off by being blatantly offensive to the point where I wondered if he was trolling.

Then, as if to excuse himself with a "ahhh! got you all!" he drops this gem halfway down the article:

> "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses."

Thanks, if we're going to go around redefining the accepted and colloquial definition of "stupid", it would seem relevant to put this near the top of your treatise.

This would also seem to contradict the author's previous assertion that stupidity is genetic and largely unrelated to nurture - unless the author seriously believes that personality traits (i.e., the tendency to go for lose-lose arrangements) are genetic.

Plausible claim, but pointless without real research, or at the very very least some semblance of qualification for the author to make such a wild assertion.

I couldn't really make it too far beyond that without being profoundly disturbed by the author's self-important vigorous mental masturbation.



I haven't read the fine article, but from what you and others have said, this is the distinction between envy and jealousy. E.g.:

Jealousy: your wife is beautiful, I'm going to kill you and take her.

Envy: your farm is very prosperous. I know I don't have the skills to run one that well, so I'm just going to destroy your's.

Envy is alive and very healthy, and as a result a whole lot of a whole lot of societies aren't so healthy.

We, as people who can do stuff others can't necessarily even conceive of, are prime targets of envy.


its funny! relax!


If that was supposed to be satire, it went right over my head :S


It was tongue-in-cheek. Like most humor, parts are more or less true.




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