I'll admit to thoughtless
behavior when it comes to having downloaded a skin without paying attention to permissions. But the inference that one mistake makes a person inherently stupid suggests that learning itself is unimportant.
You're leaving out people's exposure to exploits on legitimate sites, as GreenMonkey mentioned, and you're certainly leaving out the inexactitude and misfires of touchscreened devices in public situations. But you're also leaving out the fact that certain longtime Windows users, who have only come to own smartphones recently and aren't so much computer-literate as computer habitués -- can have learned the rote ways to avoid catching a virus without recognizing that different routines are required on Android.
I, too, have never gotten a virus on Windows and have always avoided obvious dangers. But my grillfiend has gotten them more than once and it would be a mistake to call her stupid. It's flash exploits we were talking about in the first place, and she's been a full-time web designer for the past ten years. IT people sometimes come to her to solve certain problems.
And in my opinion, the dumbest thing one can do is to angrily dismiss other people as stupid. Patience is a sign of intelligence. I've met hydrocephalic people who dismissed the rest of the world as idiots.
For the latter, I have sympathy. Perhaps some of them are incapable of understanding that bad choices are not a sign of inferiority, and that declarations to the contrary can come off as a display of self-importance.
Or perhaps they are capable of that insight, but the insight is hard-won -- as it seems to be for many of us.
I make a point on these forums of being open about my mistakes. I tend to think I'm not alone in making them, and that someone might either learn from them or feel less self-conscious about making mistakes of their own.
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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Never got virus on Windows, never getting them on Android either.
Stupid users clicking and spreading everything, never bothering with permissions or sources just to get their hands in the latest gimmick, that's the problem and, thankfully, it's not mine.
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