h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...the world is full of stupid people " The Refreshments

Should by random chance I rise to power I would do my best to eradicate stupid people... the hard part about this IMO would be defining stupid people, as we all make mistakes, all have flaws and off days. However, nothing worthwhile is easy (I would at this point like to state that IMO uneducated does not mean stupid, if it did I would be amongst the first against the wall when my own revolution came...)

First step in the right direction would be to remove the comical warnings from things, for example above hot water taps in public and office facilities I have on occasion found a sign stating "Caution: hot water may be at a high temperature", which indicates to me that there must be people stupid enough to not realise this, so remove the silly warnings, allowing evolution take its course.

"Warning: live without warning" Greenday

Of course the warnings are there to protect from littigation so I would need to remove this avenue for idiots to get rich, but I'm not going to go into detail on where the line of responsibility is drawn suffice to say the intention would be to place responsibility with the end user to a greater extent.

The second step would be a system of punishment for acts of stupidity that effect other people, for example the person that burns themself by not realising that water from a hot tap may be at a high temperature, is unpunished as this has no effect on other people. The plumber that gets the hot and cold taps mixed up and causes people who have aid attention to get burned is punished in a suitably embarrassing fashion. The more severe the harm done, the more severe the punishemnet, I believe it is best not to have absolute rules so as to allow the judiciary room to make judgements.

While I'm sure there would be more to follow in my revolution, I suspect that the core ideas can be gathered from these steps. I'm even more confident that we all know some stupid people we would love to send to the wall as examples at the start of the revolution

Math.

I like it. Of course, I still plan on being being Emperor. I would like however to offer you a position in my Minisrty of Justice.

George the Terrible

Sounds very Dilbertian I like it.

Hmm Ministry of Justice... sounds like fun, can we give judges the power to decide that a case is a waste of time and money and take punitive action against the legal team pressing the case, as they advised their client stupidly .

Math

I'd like that!