Calling another person "stupid" probably won't cure any stupidity that may exist. People will think whatever they're going to think.
Nevertheless, I'll offer some thoughts upon the subject. Why not?
If you've heard of the saying that ignorance can be cured, but stupidity cannot. However, I would not agree that this is always so. Maybe due to the hard-headedness of people, the stupidity will endure almost anything short of two slugs to the forehead.
How can stupidity be cured? Can blindness be cured? Sometimes. If blindness can be cured, a stupid person can actually become intelligent. That's because stupidity is kind of a mental blindness, in my opinion. If you are blind to something by choice, then you will remain ignorant. By extension, that will entail the choice of remaining ignorant, even though the ignorance can be overcome with training. A choice to remain ignorant, therefore, is stupid. But this kind of stupidity has nothing to do with innate abilities. It is the willful blindness that makes a person stupid by choice.
Therefore, stupidity can be cured. But that is only if a person wants to really know. Otherwise, a person remains willfully blind. It's hard to do anything about that, unfortunately.
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