Is stupidity morally incorrect? Should it be avoided?

I don't classify anyone with a learning disability as being stupid...more likely I credit more educated people with being stupid. To me being stupid or acting stupidly has to do with KNOWING something to be a foolish act and KNOWING it will have bad consequences and yet do it anyway because they think they are smart enough to get around the consequences of their actions. It's that whole "it won't happen to me" attitude that gets to me.

More often it is people who should know better or have the intellect to do something the correct and moral way and yet don't because they see themselves as above others. This falls into the lack of common sense that runs rampant in our world today. It should really be called "uncommon sense" because it seems too few people use it.

To me, willful stupidity and ignorance are immoral. Its a failure to live as God would want you to live. He did provide a brain for each of us. Apparently he wanted us to use them

The way I've understood these terms:

ignorance - a lack of knowledge
stupidity - lack of the desire to eliminate one's ignorance.

I concur that the premise behind the poll is flawed. While I agree that ignorance and stupidity are not good things, I don't see how stupidity is necessarily immoral. I would agree that acting from a state of stupidity could be immoral, though.

CaptainXeroid said:

The way I've understood these terms:

ignorance - a lack of knowledge
stupidity - lack of the desire to eliminate one's ignorance.

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I have always known of the terms this way and I think it works well for my understanding:

Naivity - a lack of knowledge
Ignorance - lack of desire to aquire knowledge = don't care to know
Stupidity - has knowledge but lacks common sense and wits to use it

I concur that the premise behind the poll is flawed. While I agree that ignorance and stupidity are not good things, I don't see how stupidity is necessarily immoral. I would agree that acting from a state of stupidity could be immoral, though.

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Heh I do hope you're not trying to suggest I am implying that stupidity should be viewed as immoral via this poll. Thank you everyone for voting and I apologise if you feel the poll was flawed in some way. I do feel that in hindsight I should have added a choice for "Stupidity is amoral".

Draka said:

I have always known of the terms this way and I think it works well for my understanding:

Naivity - a lack of knowledge
Ignorance - lack of desire to aquire knowledge = don't care to know
Stupidity - has knowledge but lacks common sense and wits to use it

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I think naivity has more to do with putting trust in things on faith or little basis..

I cant think of an appropriate work to describe not knowing something.. hmz.. I guess ill just call it 'unawareness'..

'Unawareness' - Lack of knowledge
'Ignorance' - lack of desire to aquire knowledge = don't care to know
'Stupidity' - lack of aptitude for aquisition and use of knowledge

Captain Xeroid nails it for me. To put it into a more graphic perspective:

Ignorance is curable.

Stupid goes clear to the bone.