tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8906287752618953946..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Why are bureaucrats so stupid? Evil cannot understand, or create (while it is 'being evil') Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-5075931559393207692018-12-04T11:30:39.975+00:002018-12-04T11:30:39.975+00:00@CCL - You need to read the post with more care if...@CCL - You need to read the post with more care if you think I am saying that bureaucrats are necessarily malevolently obtuse. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-90494759866254959402018-12-04T11:25:03.790+00:002018-12-04T11:25:03.790+00:00This is where we get into the difficulty with impr...This is where we get into the difficulty with imprecise language.<br /><br />Stupidity is a particular evil, like weakness, cowardice, incontinence, insanity, etc.<br /><br />But honest stupidity is entirely different from malevolent obtuseness, which is what you're describing. The malevolently obtuse are those who are <i>not</i> naturally stupid by lack of the intellectual gift in their makeup, but who have chosen to employ their mental capacity towards the end of denying truth rather than seeking it.<br /><br />This does not mean that such mental capacity is not the gift of God. But it does mean that it is a genuine gift, it is <i>given</i> to them and they are free to use it as they <i>will</i>.Chiu ChunLinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519192610708043962noreply@blogger.com