Why is it so hard to win a battle against stupid people?

If you are smart, I guarantee you that your hardest opponent to win is not a smart person but a stupid person. This is true almost anywhere where the pure fight of intelligence is not carefully pre-calculated, like in a game of Chess. Where rules are in any way hazy, stupid has the upper hand, which is fine by a smart person—this is an intellectually interesting dilemma, so let’s decode it.

You cannot win a stupid person in a logical argument because they are not smart enough to understand the logic of failed logic = loss. Because they don’t fully understand WHY things are the way they are, or indeed HOW things are, they operate on HOW THEY WANT THINGS TO BE and insist that is how things are because they like it. Their bewildering ignorance of such things that they are not smart, not beautiful, not strong, not loved back can seem like self-confidence to a lot of smart people who are riddled with anxieties and insecurities, but a stupid person can just ignore all of that and keep believing things are how they wish they were. Sweet!

Their self-confidence is based on blatant ignorance.

Stupid people are not worried about being caught being stupid; therefore, they never react to the shame of being wrong or having made an error. Their shame comes from not having been strong enough to insist on getting what they want. They believe that the smartest, strongest, bestistest person is the one with the ability to force/manipulate/nag people into doing what she or he is asking them to do. The one who gets what they want is the best, period.

Their logical conclusions are illogical or logically imprecise.

They do make logical conclusions, stupid people. It’s just that very loose logic goes into them. They frequently conclude things using unrelated similarities between things, especially moral questions. Their logic follows a manner of “you didn’t have gravy when I made mashed potatoes -> you don’t like gravy/my cooking/me.”

It’ll take a while to understand a single individual stupid person’s logic or capacity to understand words. For instance. I was trying to cheer up a stupid friend… The real reason why I believed she was having trouble finding a boyfriend was that she wasn’t smart, beautiful, interesting, or in any way what the young men of our circles would consider datable, but rather tedious, unattractive, and clearly genetically lacking, but on top of that clingy and desperate to marry. A HUGE red flag walking.

I told her as a desperate attempt after running out of all repeatable excuses – remember we are Finnish: “But you know you are the dream girlfriend of any stereotypical American man.” Knowing that she’d skip over unnecessary words like “stereotypical American,” and even if she’d notice, there’s no such thing as what we considered the stereotypical American man to be, and if there were, she’d never date him, being somewhat of a nationalist. Also, what that meant… A Bible belt -man; she was a virgin and wanted nothing more than a marriage and children. On top of that, she was modest- even pious -looking. What more does a Bible-bashing Bible-belt guy want?

Stupid’s goals are unpredictable to a smart person.

Another reason it is hard to beat stupid in a battle is that you cannot predict what they’re even trying to achieve. Their goal setting is not entirely logical to a smart person, as it can be, for instance: “Bite the hand that feeds…” for no reason. They can turn on you for no reason at all and assume you won’t turn on them because you’ll love them and support them unconditionally.

They are, thus, a danger to not only you, your friends, your family members, and all of your fans and followers and everything you own, but also themselves if you and whatever belongs to you or is related to you is too important to them. You OWE IT TO YOURSELF to not have stupid people as close friends, and this is where things get really nasty: A little interest may mean a lifelong bond to a stupid person if they are dumb enough to want to believe you’re their best friend.

Also, because stupidity is a result of an inability to handle multiple logical threads at the same time, they simplify things wherever they need to – and they do that a lot. They will somewhat randomly drop information out of the equation when it starts interfering with what they want. “Too hard? Ignore it. Unpleasant? Ignore it. Does it get in the way of what I want? Ignore it.”

King in a leash.

They have an uncanny ability to harness intelligence into their own purpose in the form of manipulating a smart person to do their thinking for them – put a king on a leash. They hit a smart person’s insecurities (that are often plenty) and good will, which is often high. A smart person can handle multiple goals and problems at the same time, so they are altruistic and can see possibilities and solutions where stupid people can’t, and they also can’t tell when a stupid person loses their track and handle on reality. Their self-confidence is then alluring to get on board, but not only their self-confidence but their shameless act of inferiority and neediness. A stupid person will act stupid and incapable at times to get what they want – and often that works the treat.

Yes. A stupid person can act stupid – by that I mean they will admit to stupidity, emphasis it in some manner, and a smart person believes it – they can easily tell that person is stupid, so they buy the ACT that is supposed to FOOL YOU into working for them, and the stupid person gets a confirmation that they are smarter than they look.

You don’t win a battle against a stupid person with logic.

They argue with volume, repetition, and persistence.

While you try to argue with them with logic, a calm voice, and reason, they argue with volume, repetition, and persistence.

You can do that, too, but the likelihood that you will stoop to that will take some intelligent logic to convince you that you’re not giving up but leveling up… Kind of like closing a loop; is the Tarot’s Fool card the beginning or the end? A sage or a fool?

Use short words. Don’t bother explaining yourself. An explanation is just an opportunity to argue back for them, an opportunity to wear you out. Give them a “yes,” “no,” and “because I/we want to/don’t want to/say so.” Everything else is a danger zone. You need to explain your logic and position to a smart person, a stupid person just uses that information to argue back because whatever you say is just white noise to them – arguing because you like arguing.

They declare victory on the most incredible logic.

“Since you are angry with me, I win,” is one of the most common stupid-person logic of “winning.” Ironically, if they are angry with you, it means “you are not taking good enough care of me, I’m afraid and it’s your fault.” They may also think that if you are angry with them they are your superior and haven’t taken good enough care of them. None of these conclusions are correct, but they are common logic for a stupid person.

That is not the only way they declare victory, another is “you gave up, therefore, I was right the whole time.” Sometimes, smart people give up a fight because they realize it’s an excersize in futility, trying to win an argument with logic with some people. So the stupid conclusion is “intelligence and logic is unnecessary and weak.”

They may apply illogical logic any way they wish on this: “You wore red today as a sign of defeat because in that movie we saw, the losers wore red when they were defeated as a sign of submission and shame.”

Their emotional intelligence is quite as low as their logical intelligence.

Stupid people interpret their emotions as if they were a box of Crayons instead of a “millions of colors” wheel. They may enjoy ANY emotion, ANY ANY ANY EMOTION AT ALL, as long as it is strong, and believe that you enjoy strong emotions, too, indiscriminately. The pain of watching your beloved… die causes a big emotion, yes? GREAT! Let’s manifest that, shall we?!

If your life constantly derails into tragedy, look around for the culprit—the stupid person who is too interested in your life and has the manifestation power of an idiot – unhindered by the lack of faith caused by logical thinking and belief in science. (Now: Good science isn’t “it can’t be because I don’t like it or believe it, or because so-and-so told me to be ashamed of believing in it.”)

When you finally scream in their face: “I’m going to kill you!!!!” is when they do their only smart thing: trust reincarnation. You killing them is basically just another victory. You ADMITTED they had such power over your feelings – they mattered to you. What a wonderful life they had.

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