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Originally Posted by Topper
Yes they were gullible, and could very well be very stupid. But you can't feel sympathy for someone clearly not as intellectually developed and superior us you?
Lets say they were as smart as a gullible 10 year old that got in a van for some candy... is that funny?
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Like I said, they're not of a diminished mental capacity (mental retardation of any form).
Sometimes we wish that we wouldn't laugh at certain things. I think a lot of that has more to do with feeling guilty that someone will judge or chide us for laughing at it, than actually feeling guilty ourselves for laughing at it.
I don't need to feel mentally superior to people, and my judgment of them doesn't come from a place of superiority- expecting
common sense to prevail in the case of a 33 and 36 year old should not be that lofty of an expectation.
The real problem is, we expect less and less of people. People win lawsuits for spilling hot coffee in their lap and blaming the restaurant for it burning them- because they weren't warned it would be hot... weren't warned that coffee- a
hot beverage-
would be hot. And won. Did you know that the packaging of all BIRTH CONTROL states in big, bold letters, "Do not use this product if you intend to become pregnant"? Because some people are so stupid, that they have tried to become pregnant while on birth control and couldn't figure out why they couldn't conceive.
We have lowered the bar, time and time again, to allow the very dumbest among us to get away with their stupidities, while we pat them on the back and say "there, there... it's ok." I will not lower the bar. Perhaps if we didn't placate everyone so much, people would grow up a bit and get a thicker skin.