Is good stupid?
Gwendolyn: Is everything OK in there? Eleanor: Yep. Gwendolyn: OK! No follow up questions. (Season 3, episode 10) There are various stereotypes of good people. Sometimes they are pretty smug about their goodness. Occasionally they are other worldly, living on mountain tops in bare feet or sandals, subsisting on lentils and radishes. They can also be overly trusting and totally naive about life – or to put it another way, they are idiots. When Michael was explaining how he managed to acquire a Good Janet from the Janet warehouse, he said: Michael: Doors were unlocked, no security. I mean, it makes sense, right? They’re good, so they’re stupid and trusting. (Series 2, episode 6) This is reminiscent of a British science fiction comedy called Red Dwarf . In one episode, Demons and Angels , there is an accident with a machine that extracts the best and worst aspects of something, which causes two duplicates of the crew to appear – one “divi...