[Submitted by Jim Scott (High Praise!)]
I want stupidity to hurt, but in a way that is proportional to the amount of dumb that is getting ready to happen.
So, like, if you’re getting ready to toss a red shirt in with white clothes you get a sharp pang, like a headache maybe.
BUT if you are actively advocating for repealing the second amendment or maybe handing over control of all healthcare to the government, or marrying my ex-wife… you know, something REALLY heinous… BOOM! crippling pain.
The way I see it, it would act as a combination warning/punishment for behavior modification.
Just think of voting day Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore,…
Oh, the humanity!
Most of CA,,,
It has been my experience that stupidity does, in fact, hurt. The problem is you don’t feel the pain until after the fact and, depending on the level of stupid, you cause others more pain than you experience yourself. I believe it was Heinlein that sad Stupidity is the only true capital offense because it was self inflicting. Paraphrase and he may have been quoting someone else.
So, having it hurt before the act would be a major improvement.
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
— Vernon Sanders Law
Found it.
“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education,
or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t
help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital
crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution
is carried out automatically and without pity.”
From the Notebooks of Lazarus Long
All I can say is…I’m damn glad I’m not stupid.