I have been getting spam from Robert E. McElwaine, so I am of the opinion that the anti-spam laws will have a limiting effect on stupidity as well.

I am against the censoring ideas, no matter how stupid they may be. I don't believe that would be a good idea.

For various reasons, I have had dealings with stupid people and found myself thinking about their stupidity and what they could possibly be thinking. I reached some conslusions:

1) Stupidity must be some sort of survival mechanism, otherwise the trait would be quickly wiped out. I suspect this works by intelligent people keeping the stupid from killing themselves and the intelligent getting getting caught in the blast radius when they are unable to stop them.

2) Many of the stupid try and use stupidity like Luke Skywalker uses the Force. It allows them to justify whatever conclusions they want without all that pesky science and logic getting in the way.

3) Stupidity many times gets mistaken for intelligence. There is a thin line between a subtle argument and a nonexistent argument. Many people confuse the two believing that there must be something there because nobody could possibly be so stupid otherwise.

4) Stupidity sometimes gets used as a cloaking device. It protects to stupid from scrutiny on a number of levels. Most people don't really like to deal with stupidity and will run at the first opportunity, or will deny its existence (See 3 or consider the phrase "Nobody can be that stupid!") There is also the "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, bury them in bulls**t!" angle. Notice how the stupid can drone on for hours or pages.