{"id":2309,"date":"2026-02-12T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/?page_id=2309"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:48:01","slug":"zitate-es-gibt-kaum-etwas-duemmeres-und-gefaehrlicheres","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/zitate-es-gibt-kaum-etwas-duemmeres-und-gefaehrlicheres\/","title":{"rendered":"There is hardly anything more foolish and dangerous than placing important decisions in the hands of people who pay no price when they get them wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 Thomas Sowell (*1930)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quote addresses the importance of accountability in far-reaching decisions. Thomas Sowell uses it to criticize a political system in which decision-makers often bear no direct consequences for their mistakes. The core mechanism is an incentive problem: those who incur no personal costs for errors are more likely to pursue risky or ideologically driven measures. The statement thus targets the structural diffusion of responsibility within state power structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">\u2190 <a href=\"http:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/zitate\/\" target=\"_self\">Back to the quotes overview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 Thomas Sowell (*1930) Das Zitat thematisiert die Bedeutung von Verantwortung bei weitreichenden Entscheidungen. Thomas Sowell kritisiert damit ein politisches System, in dem Entscheidungstr\u00e4ger h\u00e4ufig keine direkten Konsequenzen f\u00fcr Fehlentscheidungen tragen. Der zentrale Mechanismus ist ein Anreizproblem: Wer keine pers\u00f6nlichen Kosten f\u00fcr Irrt\u00fcmer tr\u00e4gt, neigt eher zu riskanten oder ideologisch motivierten Ma\u00dfnahmen. Die Aussage richtet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-2309","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2309\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}