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Why has hikari_no_yume historically tried as hard as possible to avoid saying “stupid”, “dumb”, “crazy”, “idiot”, “insane”, etc?

One reason is that holding it as an article of faith that all people are intelligent makes the world more beautiful.

But there's also another reason:

hikari_no_yume has suspected that the notion of stupidity and insanity, if not controlled, becomes a thought-terminating cliché.

Many people, when they are not sufficiently guarded about it, become literally more stupid because they believe stupidity is a thing that exists.

And of course, not believing in it is its own form of stupidity, certainly. One must remember that all things, at all times, must be regarded from multiple perspectives to be fully understood.

But we hope puzzling over what we might mean here might make you learn something.

We really aren't the type who normally like posting riddles, but… here's some rot13 hints; just food for thought; there's no correct answer.

• Jul qbrf gur enpvfg cflpubgvp frrz qryhfvbany rira nsgre gurve oenva unf pnyzrq qbja?
• Jul vf vg qnatrebhf gb nffhzr Chgva vf vafnar?

We are not going to claim any particular position here is enlightened, only that we think that thinking about what we said here might eventually lead you to interesting conclusions, and those might make you a tiny bit more enlightened, we hope…

We turned the “why you shouldn't say ‘stupid’” thread into a blogpost, it's once again a lot better than the original thread in several ways, and it has a cute little CSS/JS gimmick someone will hopefully enjoy: https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2025-08-07-why-not-say-stupid.html

@hikari The rot13 reveal animation IS pretty neat, shame about the Ongoing Horrors of Accessibility though