Stupid

[Jazzy]

While I can understand what makes someone uneducated, what makes someone stupid?

 

[Dee]

Doing something they know is going to cause physical, mental, emotional harm to them or someone else. Lacking common sense, not lacking book smarts.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Lacking common sense is my answer.

 

[DrLeftover]

ignoramus et ignorabimus
"we do not know and we will not know"

http://translation.babylon.com/english/Ignoramus%20et%20ignorabimus/​

Intentional Ignorance and an unwillingness to improve themselves that way.


oh, wow, did you see they just canceled the "honey boo" show?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Being ignorant doesn't make you stupid in my opinion. Not everyone can know everything about everything. Once you learn something about something, you're no longer ignorant on that issue. Problem solved.

 

[+paradox]

well, some people like the people from jackass do stupid stuff, yet they know what they're doing and know it's stupid or a stupid stunt... some people do stupid things just to do it, doesn't mean they lack common sense, intelligence or that they're ignorant...

also, people do or say stupid things for someone, something or for money...

 

[Bluezone777]

Doing something they know is going to cause physical, mental, emotional harm to them or someone else. Lacking common sense, not lacking book smarts.

People who do things they know will harm others are more likely to be heartless then stupid. As for doing stuff that will harm themselves if done intentionally is not really stupid either but a sign of desperation as those people are likely struggling to flee pain and become so desperate that they harm themselves as a last ditch effort to escape it but it never works in the end.

 

[Dee]

Doing something they know is going to cause physical, mental, emotional harm to them or someone else. Lacking common sense, not lacking book smarts.

People who do things they know will harm others are more likely to be heartless then stupid. As for doing stuff that will harm themselves if done intentionally is not really stupid either but a sign of desperation as those people are likely struggling to flee pain and become so desperate that they harm themselves as a last ditch effort to escape it but it never works in the end.

Well, when you're talking about the emotional and mental side of it, but like...jumping off a building's roof and onto a railing on a skateboard and then realizing it was a bad mistake when the board snaps in half, as does your leg. That's stupid. xD

 

[seasidemike]

when they do not see how their own actions negatively impact themselves, or in other words, they lack complete self awareness