Who's the more foolish?

[matt--]

This one submitted by Bob Lion54.

If it hasn't been done before:

 

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

 

 

hehe

[Peff]

I would say. The fool who follows him...

 

Theyr not saying how fool the foolish are, but I guess..Uhm

 

a fool who follows a fool is the biggest fool because he follows a fool. Wich makes the fool who follows a fool more foolish

 

It's not that bad to be a fool as long as the fool fools with style

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

For all you know, they could be following a very charismatic fool

[MachineCult]

The fool is more foolish because the fool following the fool is only following to make sure that the fool doesn't do anything foolish.

[JediKnight707]

The fool. The fool who follows him is merely submitting themselves into peer-pressure

[counting_pine]

I think the answer to this question depends on two things:

How foolish the fool is.

How foolish the fool who follows him is.

 

With this information, the problem can be reduced to a greater-than / less-than problem, which is solvable in polynomial time.

[urluckyday]

No matter how foolish the fool is, the fool that follows him must always be more foolish...wow that's deep...

[JediKnight707]

While I still stand by my vote, my friend brought up an interesting point: does the fool who follows know that the fool is a fool?

[Darth Andrew]

This a trick question?

 

I say 'the fool who follows him' since onw would have to be a fool to follow a fool, foo.

[Peff]

Isn't it Obi wan Kenobi or Han solo or something, who says this in Star Wars IV ?

[Bob Lion54]

This a trick question?

Its what Obi-Wan askes Han when Han says "Damn fool, I knew you'd say that." Rather than a trick question, its more of a retort.

 

Im actually supprised it was used for the poll. It just popped in my head when I read matt-- wanted people to send in poll ideas. I thought maybe he would get a kick out of it.

 

I'm glad it was used though. There have been some interesting, if circular, responses.

[Char Ell]

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Where was the option for equally foolish?

 

IMO the follower is the more foolish of the two. But if the fool and his follower are both fools, then what does that make the person who observes the fool and his follower traipsing along their foolish path?

[Commander Obi-Wan]

The fool because the fool is the one doing it.....and the fool is following him.

[Jeff]

The fool who follows him because Old Ben is always right.

[Lantzen]

Depands on the situation, the one that follow the fool maybe trying to stop the fool from doing something foolish like someone said before, then the follower isnt the most foolish. But if he just follow then the follower is the most foolish

[Smon]

...fool is one of those words where if you say it, it doesn't sound like a real word anymore like plenty. Fool, fool, fool, fool, fool, fool, fooly, cooly, fool, see? Now it sounds like a totally different word.

[Ray Jones]

This question is a typical example for these most pregnant pseudo wise phrases you get thrown at with in 'class A' movies. There is no general answer to be found and if then it's most probably of paradox nature. A fools grade of foolishness is not to be classified depending on whether he's following another fool's footsteps or not. According to the definition of the word fool, this is not of importance or relevance.

 

I'd like to see an option "Double Chocolate Cookies" and thus vote for it.

[Darkkender]

He who follows a fool for any reason is still a fool. No matter how you justify a situation your still following the fool. Now being classified as a follower implies that you are being led by somebody. If you are being led by a fool then by default that makes you a fool as well. Now since it is universally agreed upon that those who follow and not lead are not independant thinkers thus they are foolish. This foolishness of following a fool makes the Follower the greater fool. So to the person who proposes this as an equation it would look like this.

 

void main()

{

fool = 1;

follower = fool;

 

fool + follower = greater_fool;

while(greater_fool > fool)

{

print("The Follower is the Greater Fool");

}

}

[popcorn2008]

No matter how foolish the fool is, the fool that follows him must always be more foolish...wow that's deep...

I like this statement, and have to agree.

 

If you have a fool, he is in definition foolish. When a fool follows the original fool, they have to be more foolish because they followed the first fool. If the fool who follows wasnt as foolish as the first fool then they wouldnt have followed the original fool.

 

[PoM]

Depends.

[I say, I say]

The fool is already foolish, thus the other 'fool' already knows this. Yet despite this he allows himself or herself to follow the fool and therefore becoming more foolish than the fool.

[Niner_777]

I'd say that the fool is more foolish because the fool is already established as a fool, where as the fool who follows the fool hasn't actually been foolish at all and may not during the following of the fool

[=DEATH STAR=]

didnt obi wan in episode four summon that up? i voted for the fool who follows the other guy

[MagnaGuard]

didnt obi wan in episode four summon that up? i voted for the fool who follows the other guy

 

Yep.

[igyman]

You'd have to be pretty foolish to follow a fool, so the fool who follows him gets my vote.