We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do.
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.
I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.
That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.
