"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
could go either way tbh
could go either way tbh
Hanlon's Handgun.
The definition of negligence is that it isn't malicious.
My point is that, if you ought to have done something, and you didn't, you're culpable. And I would certainly use the word "malice" (in the everyday sense, not in all legal contexts) to describe someone who knows they are cutting corners that might have damaging consequences, but cuts corners anyway. I think it's malicious to harm or endanger other people to make a buck.
don't let individuals off the hook just because they work for a particular company. if that company operates in bad faith, its employees do too.
Hanlon's Razor is absolutely valid.
That said, I'd posit that stupidity isn't accidental and shouldn't be excused. Rather it should be stomped on just as hard as malice since, as others have pointed out, the effect is the same.
People have reasons for acting incompetently - often those reasons are because the system is set up to enable that, in one way or another.
And it's most often the case that system has been set up intentionally in that way (or has been manipulated to get that outcome) - there's malice in the organisational big picture.
The effect is the same and the cause is the same as well.
You're going to see both good and bad Facebook engineers.