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Like I said, they're not of a diminished mental capacity (mental retardation of any form)..
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I'm definitely willing to agree with you, these women could very well be the stupidest walking the earth. They could have the worst common sense in the world. That makes it their fault then?
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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. )
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Its your lack of sympathy for those less gifted with brains and common sense that I point out though.
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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.)
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I'd say these are poor examples, in that there is no person committing a crime and actively trying to deceive them.
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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.
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You can't teach people to be smarter then they are. If they lack common sense, they do. But there is a real victim here with a perpetrator out to deceive them, unlike your above examples, and I believe that warrants some sympathy and less laughter. Growing a thicker skin towards people deceiving others and them falling for it? hmm..