I cannot feel any empathy for stupid people (a philosophical rant suggested by a news)

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If there is a kind of people that I dislike, it is the stupid kind. An Italian author, Carlo Cipolla, wrote 30 years ago in English an useful little jewel that you will find easily online by googling its title : "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity." There is only five laws, and I think he should have better started by the fifth to show the importance of his work : "A stupid person is the most dangerous kind of person". The author uses roundabout ways to explain this law. I will use another roundabout way than his, and I will quote for that an unquestionable source, at least for a Catholic, as it comes from a Doctor of the Church, Saint Thomas Aquinas. He wrote, circa 1270 in his Summa Theologiae (For those liking complete sources it is in I-IIae, quaestio 40, art. 6 in fine) : "Omnes stulti, et deliberatione non utentes, omnia tentant, et sunt bonae spei" that I will translate "All the stupids, and those who are not using their brain to think, are daring all, and are full of good hope." So true ! Stupids are never thinking that the consequences of their audacity can turn bad for them, and they dare everything, it is like this that you know that they are stupid, often too lately, because, if there is a label on canned boxes, it is not inscribed on their face that they are stupid, and difficult to believe for someone weighting the pros and cons before doing something that everybody does not act the same way. What makes also their identification difficult is, like the second basic law of human stupidity tells it, that "the probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic". Said otherwise, you can find them everywhere, among blue-collar workers like among Nobel laureates. I am writing those thoughts after having read an article of the American Huffington Post that I link : a woman from Indiana who married an undocumented Mexican immigrant agreed with the policy of Trump about immigration and voted for him. Consequence : her husband was intended to be deported yesterday. And now she says that "she thought 'good people' would get to stay". How stupid ! Repeating what Saint Thomas Aquinas taught to us, they dare all and are full of good hope... Time to tell you the third basic law of human stupidity as a casting out nines test to prove that this woman is stupid : "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses." How can we have any empathy for these dangerous people ? It would be like being empathic for a terrorist or a serial killer. Not for me. Your thoughts welcomed.