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Hanlon's Razor is for a situation where good faith can be assumed, or the benefit of the doubt given.

When the actors involved have shown themselves to be self-interested, bad-faith, or otherwise undeserving of the benefit of the doubt, it can be abandoned, and malice assumed where it has been clearly present before.



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