Stop Making Excuses for Evil

Evil is real. Some people really do hate you.

Hanlon’s razor (not to be confused with Occam’s razor) says the following:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I have long known the concept, and heard it expressed by others, but I must confess that I was this years old when I learned that it actually has a name. (It was a commenter here who hipped me to it a few mo…