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Stupidity or Evil: Which is More Dangerous?

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Posted By: Christopher L, 1/29/2026 2:56:49 PM

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer’s insight remains one of the most unsettling diagnoses of moral collapse ever written—not because it flatters our intelligence, but because it strips away comforting illusions. Evil, he observed, can be confronted. It can be named, resisted, punished. Stupidity, by contrast, is immune to argument. Facts bounce off it. Evidence is dismissed as irrelevant. Moral reasoning fails not because it is weak, but because it is no longer being received.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged by the nazi SS, April 1945, Fossenburg concentration camp, Germany.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 1/29/2026 3:06:58 PM (No. 2061997)
In the wider world there are probably 100 extremely stupid folks doing the wrong things which destroy the country for every 1 truly intentionally evil person doing the same. So, because of sheer numbers, the idiots are far more dangerous.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Maggie2u 1/29/2026 3:38:16 PM (No. 2062009)
I have a relative that is described in this article. She rarely attends family gatherings even though we rarely talk politics but she is afraid (my opinion) that if she were to hear something that goes against her beliefs that Conservatism or Republicans are evil she might start to have doubts. Frankly, if she were to show up at my door I wouldn't let her in because she is the kind who would do violence against those who aren't 'true believers'.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 1/29/2026 3:42:29 PM (No. 2062012)
At least evil knows where it is going. Stupid doesn't.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hurricanegirl 1/29/2026 4:39:59 PM (No. 2062031)
Why does it have to be one or the other?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: crashnburn 1/29/2026 4:44:33 PM (No. 2062034)
I think evil is more dangerous than stupid. Out of sheer incompetence, stupid might accidentally do something good. Evil knows what it is doing and will never do anything good if they can help it, at all. Also, ever since the DemoRoids rejected God, Satan, and his evil minions, have taken His place among them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mc squared 1/29/2026 8:37:08 PM (No. 2062139)
Do read Bonhoeffer's investigations of stupidity.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: ldb51 1/30/2026 1:18:00 AM (No. 2062204)
Evil uses stupidity to batter down the doors before it walks in as a s-eating grin fake savior. Talking about you, NYC, As I have said before, not enough FAFO lessons being taught to the street punks with the cheerful battle cries.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: LadyVet 1/30/2026 5:00:44 AM (No. 2062235)
In my opinion. Jimmy Carter is an example of this on a Presidential level. Perceived as a good person, he nevertheless made stupid decisions that allowed evil, in the form of radical Islamism take such a hold that he threatened the world. I have a hard time deciding whose stupidity did more damage in office, Carter or Biden?
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