Stupidity, Ignorance, Venality, Malevolence

Jim Mason
2 min readFeb 21, 2024

The scale of self-injurious and anti-social behavior

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I don’t think anybody likes to be called “stupid”, even after they repeatedly make decisions that are demonstrably contrary to their own best interests. But there are some people who seem incapable of learning from their past mistakes.

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Jim Mason

I study language, cognition, and humans as social animals. You can support me by joining Medium at https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership