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Is this the worlds stupidest man ?
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04-01-2020 11:00pm#1Lu Chao, a 28 year old Chinese man has been ordered to pay a Chinese airline 15000 euros in compensation for lost business after he threw coins into the planes engine, supposedly to ensure good luck on the flight. He then argued in court that the airline should have warned passengers not to throw coins into the engines !!! This guy must surely be a contender for the Global Village Idiot of the year. Come back Maria Bailey, all is forgiven !!!
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Pythagorean wrote: »Lu Chao, a 28 year old Chinese man has been ordered to pay a Chinese airline 15000 euros in compensation for lost business after he threw coins into the planes engine, supposedly to ensure good luck on the flight. He then argued in court that the airline should have warned passengers not to throw coins into the engines !!! This guy must surely be a contender for the Global Village Idiot of the year. Come back Maria Bailey, all is forgiven !!!
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Pythagorean wrote: »Lu Chao, a 28 year old Chinese man has been ordered to pay a Chinese airline 15000 euros in compensation for lost business after he threw coins into the planes engine, supposedly to ensure good luck on the flight. He then argued in court that the airline should have warned passengers not to throw coins into the engines !!! This guy must surely be a contender for the Global Village Idiot of the year. Come back Maria Bailey, all is forgiven !!!
Yes. He is literally the world's most stupid man.0 -
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Pythagorean wrote: »Is this the worlds stupidest man ?
By what measure?
Is it any more or less ridiculous than 100s of our local citizens walking up the aisle in local club houses and eating a piece of bread and thinking it brings them somehow closer in commune with the maker of the universe?
For me the only obvious difference is that 1 person believed it compared to millions of people believing it.
But the numbers make neither any less ridiculous
TLDR I do not think he is stupid. I think he is human. And humans get some _weird_ ideas in their heads.0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »By what measure?
Is it any more or less ridiculous than 100s of our local citizens walking up the aisle in local club houses and eating a piece of bread and thinking it brings them somehow closer in commune with the maker of the universe?
For me the only obvious difference is that 1 person believed it compared to millions of people believing it.
But the numbers make neither any less ridiculous
TLDR I do not think he is stupid. I think he is human. And humans get some _weird_ ideas in their heads.
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[Deleted User] wrote: »By what measure?
Is it any more or less ridiculous than 100s of our local citizens walking up the aisle in local club houses and eating a piece of bread and thinking it brings them somehow closer in commune with the maker of the universe?
For me the only obvious difference is that 1 person believed it compared to millions of people believing it.
But the numbers make neither any less ridiculous
TLDR I do not think he is stupid. I think he is human. And humans get some _weird_ ideas in their heads.
There is another difference. The action of the man in China could have caused harm to others, as in death to many passengers or even a million people if the plane came down in, say, Beijing. The people walking down the aisle are not harming others, except perhaps those people who don't share their beliefs and want to mind their business for them, those suffering people who have to live on this godawful planet with people whose beliefs they do not share. What a nightmare. Those people with religious belief should be castigated on every thread in boards.ie, including threads on the weather, on tiddlywinks, on organic farming etc etc. They are responsible for everything that's wrong with the world and we shouldn't be discussing anything else, especially if we know nothing about anything else. :rolleyes:0 -
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The action of the man
This I grant you. The manifestation of his belief was different.
My comment was more about whether his belief was - of itself - any more or less ridiculous than others. Do not forget the title of the thread. The thread was about how stupid the man was. Not about the effects his stupidity may or may not have had. And my one and _only_ point was that in isolation his belief was not any more or less stupid than any other.Those people with religious belief should be castigated on every thread in boards.ie
If you say so :)But please note you are the first and only person so far on the thread to say so No one else did. Much as your intention seems to have been to not so subtly imply otherwise
No the purpose of my post at least - seeing as it is the only one I can speak for or to - was not to castigate anyone specifically. But to alleviate castigation on this one individual by pointing out that his superstition was no more or less "stupid" than anyone else's. It just _seems_ stupider because it harmed more people.
But if you normalize for harm - he is no more or less stupid than these people here for example.
TLDR: You are talking about the effect of his stupid belief - while I was talking about the relative differences in stupidity between beliefs.0 -
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Pythagorean wrote: »Lu Chao, a 28 year old Chinese man has been ordered to pay a Chinese airline 15000 euros in compensation for lost business after he threw coins into the planes engine, supposedly to ensure good luck on the flight. He then argued in court that the airline should have warned passengers not to throw coins into the engines !!! This guy must surely be a contender for the Global Village Idiot of the year. Come back Maria Bailey, all is forgiven !!!
Pretty sure the petrol stations don't warn you not to drink petrol as well.This fella though.. .. ..0 -
Pretty sure the petrol stations don't warn you not to drink petrol as well.This fella though.. .. ..
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Two things spring to mind when I read your post.
The first was the court case that lead to hot drinks being labelled as "hot"
but many years before that the genius Douglas Adams writing a sketch where after he read the "instructions" on the side of a packet of tooth picks - he built an inside mental asylum where he lived on the "outside" and everyone else lived on the "inside".
I think Mr Adams predicted most of the 2000s in that scene 0 -
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Two things spring to mind when I read your post.
The first was the court case that lead to hot drinks being labelled as "hot"
but many years before that the genius Douglas Adams writing a sketch where after he read the "instructions" on the side of a packet of tooth picks - he built an inside mental asylum where he lived on the "outside" and everyone else lived on the "inside".
I think Mr Adams predicted most of the 2000s in that scene
Wasn't there a case there only some weeks back about someone scalding themselves on a flight, sued the airline and then got paid thousands or something like that? FFS what happened to self-accountability? If I have a takeaway tea and burn myself, it's my fault not the f*cking shop I bought it from, unless the cup 'gave way' and the bottom of it just went (very unlikely I would say)0 -
Like I said - Douglas Adams seemed to have predicted this level of stupidity in a book that is so old it even had a radio series before I reached the age of reason
There is something wrong with us. All of us. And after 4 decades on this planet the only thing I know for sure is I have neither a diagnosis nor a cure
But the one thing I am quite certain of is that after "first glance" the man described in the OP is no more or less stupid than anyone else that springs instantly to mind 0 -
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You are conflating people walking down an aisle minding their own business with parents causing the death of their child by choosing not to call a doctor.
Nope. You are doing that.
Why? How?
Because once again you are talking about the effects of their belief. And thus missing the point of my original post.
My original post has nothing - read this again - nothing - to do with the negative effects of beliefs.
My sole and only point was that if you ignore the effects of their belief - that the idea throwing coins might bring you luck is no more - and lets be honest less - ridiculous than the idea that eating bread will bring you into commune with the creator of the universe.
TLDR: The problem here is not "stupidity" was my only pointHow on earth can you measure the stupidity of an act in isolation from its effects?
I don't know. My post was about the relationship between stupidity and belief. Not stupidity and action. If you want to talk about the former I am game. If you want to talk about the latter then I am not the man for youIt took a long time for this country to arrive at a juncture where all non-subversive beliefs were entitled to equality of esteem. If boards is anything to go by we seem to be regressing. I use non-subversive in its broadest sense.
Here we are more on the same page. My spider sense tingles every time people appeal to equality. Too often the word is a weapon more than an ideal. It does not mean what I want it to mean any more. And my skin tingles tell me you think so too.0
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