When analyzing any thinker or individual ask yourself:
Is this thought born out of spite/malice?
If this is the case, ignore it.
What is malice?
Malice: malus (bad, evil). If someone says something out of malice or is malicious it means:
They *INTEND* to do harm, evil, upon you.
The problem:
A lot of people do harm without being malicious.
For example, Mark Z has probably done incalculable amounts of fucking up of the self esteem of people (without malice). Mark thinks he is doing the wrong thing. But this is why we cannot trust nice guys; they do more harm (naive interventionism) by *NOT* knowing how they can fuck things up. This is why I highly distrust ‘nice guys’ like Warren Buffett, Mark and Bill Gates.
Spite
Spite comes from ‘despite’. It means to ‘look down’ on someone (despicio in Latin). This is the root of disrespect. If you look down on another, you are ‘spiting’ them. But the question:
When you look at others, do you see them as above you or below you?