On Attributing To Malice
This one’s a slight philsophical break. I’ve been on a few different journeys since the last post on this blog… 2 different jobs, consulting work, and then starting my own company with a long term friend and now business partner! I figured I’d start out with a bit of a shower thought I had. I’d like to occasionally take this blog in a direction of more philosophical thinkery, because that’s always been another interest of mine. I was considering a hypothetical scenario whereby someone whom you’re supposed to respect and whom you want to respect (think: family-in-law, boss, government official), does something untoward. Something that could be addressed with Hanlon’s razor - “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” ...