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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Of course, I forgot -- if anything annoys someone around here, clearly it had to have been done with malice aforethought...
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"Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives. Do we not often afflict others undesignedly, and, from mere carelessness, neglect to relieve distress?"
—Jane West "
The Loyalists"
"
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity"
—Robert Anson Heinlein, "
Logic of Empire"
See also: Hanlon's Razor