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As a side note, Hanlon’s Razor is applied so liberally and in ways to shut down criticisms of what very well could be a number of root causes, some of which could include malice and greed.

At the end of the day, Hanlon’s Razor is just something some dude came up with to explain what is the most likely but not even necessarily correct assessment of a given situation. It is often unjustifiably treated as some immutable law when it is really just a flourish of rhetoric.



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