Past a certain point, incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. People who are so extraordinarily terrible at their jobs to the degree that they cause serious harm to others should be treated just as harshly — if not more harshly — than bad actors who intend to cause damage in the first place. If you take a shower one day and end up getting electrocuted, then it doesn’t really matter, from a practical perspective, whether your electrician meant to kill you or not when he hooked up your wiring in the bathroom. The fact is, you’re dead. The electrician is to blame. And he should pay the highest price for that.
Brown University, the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, has now crossed the threshold into extreme incompetence that’s indistinguishable from malice. So have local authorities in Providence, as well as any federal authorities who are working on the case. On Saturday at 4:00 PM, nearly five days ago, a gunman shot 11 people on the campus of Brown University. One of the two victims who died was the vice president of the university’s chapter of the College Republicans. There are reports that she may have been targeted, and that she was shot multiple times at close range. And in the aftermath of this mass shooting and possible political assassination, the university and the authorities have bungled the case so flagrantly, so many times, that they may as well be working with the shooter.
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