• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    oooooooh no, there’s plenty of people who really are just that dumb. my mother for example. you can explain the same thing to her a thousand times and she will still not get the even most basic stuff, as long as she just doesn’t want to understand them, for whatever reason. don’t assume malice, assume a missing brain or sth

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      4 days ago

      “Indistinguishable from malice” doesn’t mean they’re malicious. It means their ignorance is causing harm as if they were malicious.

      Like say if someone didn’t understand vaccines to such an extent that they voted to remove them. Causing harm.