Stupid People have a Purpose
Posted by gonzo_the_____@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 17 comments
Stupid people contribute to humans being the dominant species on earth.
Think about it, because of stupid people we have to measure stuff, and through measurements come refinement, and better ideas.
Without stupid people, once we discovered a way to do something, there would never be a need to develop a better way.
Now here’s the catch, who are stupid humans? All of us, it just depends on our setting, knowledge base, and experience.
Purple-Stock-5172@reddit
Without stupid people, we wouldn't have warning labels. I've gotta shout out to Bill Engvall here, "Here's Your Sign."
00rb@reddit
Smart people are just stupid people with more elaborate reasoning
dagger_5005@reddit
Without stupid people we'd have no idea what plants are poisonous.
Real_Luck_9393@reddit
Have you ever wondered why babies put everything in their mouths? Its a lot easier to replace an infant than a fully grown human...like from an evolutionary perspective...just saying
dagger_5005@reddit
"I have good news and bad news. The bad news is, it turns out those berries are poisonous, and your child did not make it. The good news is, you and Borg get to go back another one! Isn't that fun?"
jnmtx@reddit
We also watch to see what animals eat. And there is something in last-resort survival called the Universal Edibility Test (don’t try this at home kids). https://www.backpacker.com/skills/universal-edibility-test
Turbulent-Name-8349@reddit
I love this! It's both better and worse than my own "way to eat poisons" test which is skin contact, then 1 mm^3 then 10 mm^3 then 100 mm^3 then 1 cm^3 then 10 cm^3 with a 1 hour stop between each test.
dagger_5005@reddit
Rat poison must be delicious!
I_might_be_weasel@reddit
Wait, why do stupid people make us measure stuff and find better ways to do things? Seems like those things would happen more often without stupid people.
kingtreerat@reddit
As an engineer, it is my job to make things idiot-proof. Unfortunately, they keep making better idiots.
gonzo_the_____@reddit (OP)
My whole premise is that we’re all stupid in one way or another, so in my head we don’t know who is stupid or not, so that causes us to have to measure stuff to see if it’s a good idea or not.
Real_Luck_9393@reddit
Smart people usually have an intuition for good ideas and thus dont need to measure them. Stupid people force the need to excessive measureme everything to get them onboard with good ideas and with increasing complexity it becomes easier to misrepresent data such that it appears to support any conclusion to stupid people. They're a burden, through and through.
No-Stretch-9230@reddit
What about this is an idea?
humblevladimirthegr8@reddit
It is the official belief of pastafarians that the flying spaghetti monster created stupid people for entertainment
Turbulent-Name-8349@reddit
Please distinguish between "unintelligent people" and "stupid people". Unintelligent people have a purpose. I'm not so sure about stupid people. Failing to measure something correctly is unintelligent. Filling the salt shaker with sugar is stupid.
gonzo_the_____@reddit (OP)
Nah, stupid is as stupid does. You’re just dissenting to dissent, I have a teenage son that will do the same thing.
If I were to create a spectrum, sure, but that’s not the point of this post now is it? I’m saying stupid people have a purpose, and really what it comes down to is love.
We love stupid people, and we are stupid people, so we all work together so we can all thrive rather than just the most able of us.
Shaundrae@reddit
Glad I could help!