Incompetence vs Malice
Comments debate whether failures, poor decisions, or problematic actions stem from incompetence rather than deliberate malice, often citing Hanlon's Razor.
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Incompetence isn't quite how I'd describe this.
What if they’re just incompetent
Incompetence does a fine job of explaining this, no?
Seems like a trend of incompetence.
This one seems unusually incompetent.
Not for the lack of trying, just sheer incompetence.
Maybe they're incompetent.
You may be assuming intent where there is really only incompetence
No need to attribute to malice when sheer incompetence can explain it.
There’s failure and then there’s incompetence, this seems to be the latter.