The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

- Albert Einstein

Thanks, Al, but I want to know more concretely.  Robertson said that the Haitians, those are the ones dieing by the thousands right now, had made a “deal with the devil” years ago.

Some equally stupid people are trying to spin this as taken out of context.  Unless you remove it from the context of the space-time continuum, you can’t really take it out of context of tens or hundreds of thousands of people dieing while a rich white preacher tells the world on TV that they are all going to hell.

Out of context?  Definitely not.  But has it touched the limits of  the vastness that is stupidity?

By ranking, it is not the stupidest thing anyone has ever done.  Many people do worse things, if you grade the relative badness on how much it actually harms.  Dropping a frozen turkey into a deep fryer and having it explode and burn your house down is far dumber.

Other idiots go so far as to kill themselves, so much so that a television show was created just to showcase the moronic ways to die, such as by snorting fire ants.

If one were to plot stupidity on a chart, death would be point that the line, yes, flat lines.

But can we make it more stupid (or is that stupider)?

The answer, unfortunately, is yes.  Rather than just killing yourself, your stupidity could kill others.  Every dumbass from pilots that drink before flying to texting train drivers have raised the bar for stupidity to new heights, or should we say lows.

But who has done the stupidest thing ever?  Who has shown us the limit of stupidity in all its glory?

To do that, I must say something that will cause China to add a filter on this site.  Sorry, Chinese citizens, you aren’t allowed to read this.

The stupidest thing ever caused the unintentional deaths (because intentional death isn’t stupid, it’s just plain evil) killed tens of millions of people.  That’s not a mistype: tens of millions of people.

Who could be so ginormously stupid to cause the deaths of tens of millions of people, and how did they do it?

The dumbest dummy of all dummies, the king moron, the master of stupidity is… Mao Zedong, leader of China during the period known as the Great Leap Forward.  His stupidity was to be so blind to communism, that he didn’t even heed the warning signs that collectivist agriculture was a failure in the U.S.S.R.  But, rather than back off, he pushed even harder than the Russians.  He also decided that farmers could do other jobs, since his stupidity extended to believing that farmers just sit around watching plants grow and should be put to other projects as well.

The result was the deaths of tens of millions of people due to widespread famine.  The famine was so bad, some resorted to cannibalism to survive.

Good job, dumbass!

There have been killers and warriors that have caused millions to die.  But only Mao was able to kill so many so fast by sheer ignorance.

In light of this, Pat Robertson certainly qualifies as a fool.  Ultimate stupidity?  Far from it.  But don’t let me discourage you from getting in line to give him a swift kick in the ass.  If only people could have lined up to kick Mao in the ass.

Well, he told them they could line up, but he just said that so that he could exterminate them for showing up for the line.  Yeah, he was a bad guy as well as stupid.

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