The laws of stupidity

What did the bombers who targeted Kathimerini and Skai ultimately accomplish? Sure, they caused damage, which will be repaired, at a time when every euro counts. But beyond that? Did they think that they would terrorize the journalists into silence, make them stop talking and writing? As if we would. We will not weep or be intimidated. Condemnation of the act, meanwhile, was universal, coming even from the lips of Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, who has often referred to Skai TV in the most insulting terms. The violence of the explosion contradicts whatever noble or socially minded causes the terrorists may invoke when and if they claim responsibility for the attack - unless there are other nefarious motives.

Terrorism cannot be explained without economic history professor Carlo M. Cipolla's third and golden law of human stupidity: "A stupid person is a person who...

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