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"I think you're not using the author's definition of "stupid" "

The author does not offer one.

Hmm... Did you consider the one featured rather prominently in a box under the heading "The third (and golden) basic law"?

> A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

I haven't read that philosophical masterpiece that far. This is indeed a very innovative definition this guy has devised. So a person who causes losses to others while her or himself gaining, like a criminal for instance, is not stupid by definition?

Sadly most other common definitions are a little different: http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=stupid

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