Which do you think is more dangerous?

By Bala
@balasri (26537)
India
October 9, 2007 7:02am CST
Stupidity or Half knowledge.
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8 responses
@prazad (281)
• India
10 Oct 07
brilliant question ! I think half knowledge is most dangerous. normally stupidity may not always leads to a bad state.
@balasri (26537)
• India
10 Oct 07
Thanks prazad for the appreciation.That is a wonderful response too.
@prazad (281)
• India
11 Oct 07
;d
@brokentia (10389)
• United States
9 Oct 07
Aren't they the same thing? Because if a person only has half the knowledge...then that person would be stupid to the things not known. Hence, only half knowledge and stupidity is the same thing. Hmm...you have me on this one. ha ha :)
@balasri (26537)
• India
10 Oct 07
Hi Tia .How are you.Long time no see.How is your job.Well as you say they are stupids alright.But the half baked tend to to do things with a false confidence which is more dangerous.At tomes it is to late for us to know that they are half knowledged.
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
10 Oct 07
I just recently quit that job. :( Long story. But I am now concentrating on getting my house back into order. I spent the entire day cleaning today! ha ha You and Zu make very valid points. A half knowledge person can very well be more dangerous because of the misconception of said's known knowledge. Lots of stuff could very well be screwed up that way. ha ha
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
9 Oct 07
"Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.' I agree totally that half or little knowledge can be deadly in many regards. I work in a hospital and each day I come across so many ppl who with half knowledge do some scary things that you would be scared to know. It could be as bad as stopping medicines altogether to altering the dose themselves to prescribing own medicines and stuffs like that. So the consequences of half knowledge is deadly and many a times irreversible.
@balasri (26537)
• India
9 Oct 07
Ina country where you get an instant adulation for anything the half baked tend to act smart.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
10 Oct 07
Indeed the half baked ones think they are street smart!
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
9 Oct 07
half knowledge is much more dangerous. one might be too confident to boast on the little knowledge he knows and when asked for a detailed information, he will not be able to give it. he'd just embarrass himself.
@balasri (26537)
• India
10 Oct 07
I agree with you very much.You must have the courage to admit that you don't know a thing.
@thefortunes (2367)
• Netherlands
9 Oct 07
Half knowldge is somewhat riskier, I think, because people tend to be or to get cocky, thus taking more risks when they think they "know" enough, while they don't know even half of enough ;) TheFortunes
@balasri (26537)
• India
9 Oct 07
Yes that is right.The false confidence sets in.
@goodsign (2287)
• Malaysia
9 Oct 07
I do think for stupidity is more dangerous than half knowledge or inproficient or craven. Because 'stupid' does mean for inability to learn. Once people or human cannot do learning, many things will jeopardized their own and others life.
@balasri (26537)
• India
10 Oct 07
I gather that the proper learning and writing is very important by your response.
@Mirita (2668)
• United States
10 Oct 07
I think half knowledge because is important to know the whole story and not just some knowledge about something. We usually jump to conclusions when we don't know the whole story.
@sang2k2 (1833)
• India
9 Oct 07
no half knowledge is the riskiest as tht is the situation when one can fall in trouble or there are chances of developing misconceptions among the ppl..to cite a exmaple, my friend is active on mylot n her Bf is nt aware abt all this sites actaully he is iliterate abt computers as he is very much in his work throughtouth the day ...so he ahs half knowledge abt these things so when evr my friend uses mylot n her bf is around he thinks tht she is chatting with unknown ppl n stuff like tht this has lead to arguments many a times now she ahs completely stopped using internet or else she was asked to quit the relation...