Grey's Law
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Grey's Law states:
| “ | Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. [1] | ” |
For a real world example, driving a car at 100mph down the wrong side of a road into traffic; a dangerous and malicious act whether it is intentional or due to pure stupidity (often both). Similar parallels can be drawn up from politics. Are those who deny the threat of global warming and oppose pollution control actively harming the world or just too stupid to understand science? Who knows, the outcome is likely to be the same.
The wording of the law is a play on Clarke's Third Law and is somewhat of a corollary of Hanlon's razor, which states that one shouldn't immediately blame malicious intent for something that could be attributed to incompetence.[2]
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