• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 day ago

    Murphy’s Razor is the silliest.

    It should be “Anything that can be simple will not be.”

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      It basically already is, it just isn’t stated as such.

      Treat every weapon as if is loaded untill you have personally and properly verified that it is not.

      &

      Never, EVER, point a gun at anything you do not intend to destroy.

      …

      Those two are in basically any gun safety rule set you can find, and they pretty much combine into ‘Murphy’s Gun’.

      Note that number 2 there makes no exception for ‘my finger wasn’t on the trigger’ or ‘the gun was in a desk drawer’ or ‘i didn’t think it was loaded’ or ‘i thought the safety was on’.

      A lot of people will read or be told number 2 and just insert all those non existent caveats into the rule.

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    I would prefer Murphy’s cat: “Any time there’s a cat, it will make something go wrong.”

    And Murphy’s razor: “The simplest problem is probably the one that happens.”