Idiot

Frequent visitors of my previous blog may remember I have a rooted belief: It is usually impossible to tell an ingenious crook from a complete idiot.

(For example, see: http://ccszeto.blogspot.hk/2010/01/consent.html)

But, now I see light.

First, from a simple epidemiological point of view (alas, that's the physician's jargon of by chance), ingenious crooks are a rare species, while idiots are of abundant supply. It is therefore almost always the latter case.

And, since you can predict the action of neither (as you cannot put yourself into their very special shoes), and, to us, their detrimental effects are identical, we should treat them as all but the same species.

Idiots.