<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com" target="_blank">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 06/03/2014 07:19 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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Ignorance is innocently not knowing something. Stupid is ignorance by choice.<br>
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Or genetics.</blockquote><div><br>I tend to use the word "stupid" in an insulting form. So for me, a genetic inability to learn is a cause for sadness. Refusing to learn because the content of the knowledge "is against tradition" is pretty (f***ing) stupid.<br>
<br></div><div>Of course the actual definitions include the concept of "lacking common sense" which is a pretty ill-defined thing to be missing. And lacking it seems to be more common than having it. Thus we get to an etymological dilemma: Why is something so rare as "common sense" referred to as common? Maybe calling it "common sense" is really a cruel word-play joke on the terminally stupid (who wouldn't understand they are being laughed at in this matter anyway).<br>
<br></div><div>This could go on for a long time :-)<br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div>
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