STUPIDITY

A post entitled Good Deeds this morning on SimonWorld has got my goat. It concerns "phishing" and the "you've-won-the-Spanish-lottery,-just-give-us-your-bank-acct-details,-your-pin-numbers-and-a-large-cheque-and-we'll-get-the-money-right-to-you" scam that I'm sure we've all received via email dozens of times. Someone called Romana, who clearly comes from educationally subnormal stock, said that only the internet and SimonWorld prevented her dad from firing off all his details immediately in response to one of these emails.

While I agree that it is clearly illegal to go around robbing people blind, my views on this are somewhat unsympathetic. My comment on SimonWorld was...

i'm sorry but there is a bit of evolutionary darwinism going on here....

you know how lions target the weak, the crippled, the old and/or the frail as easy targets, and so keep raising the genetic bar of the herd by removing the duds, well this is the same.

anyone who is so stupid as to believe that they have won a foreign lottery they have not even entered, and to be informed of the winning in an email from someone they've never heard of, deserves to lose everything!

it's natures way of ensuring that stupid people sink to the bottom

and I stand by it.