Originally Posted by
zombie67
As a people, we are too stupid. Therefore we let lawyers and law makers make us safe...and we end up more stupid. It's accelerated anti-darwin, around a black hole. Stupid should hurt. Touch fire, it hurts, teaches us to NOT do that. That makes us smarter. When there is no down-side to stupid (too-big-to-fail, Greece, Stockton, etc), the sad end is inevitable. We have very recent, obvious examples, all predicted by everyone. Of course, being stupid, we all think it won't happen to our town, our state, our country. We are too stupid.
Edit: oops. sorry. i was responding to the "people might stick their finger into a blender" comment. And then I got derailed.