Ka-pi96 said:
Machiavellian said:
Lets put this in more relative terms. You have a business. You do 2 things right and 3 things wrong. What do you do next time you make a decision. Do you do the 2 things right and remember the wrongs so you do not do them again. You have a lot of text that really means nothing because people have shone to do the same thing wrong multiple times with the same result. Another case in point, when a country goes to war, they do 2 things right and 3 things wrong. When they go to war again what do you think they are going to do. In other words just because someone chooses to continue to do the same mistakes over and over again does not dismiss knowing history. Instead people have a record or HISTORY of how dumb these people were and the smart ones do not repeat the same mistakes because they actually LEARNED something.
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So rather than recognising your original statement as the fallacy that it is you're just going to go with "well those people aren't smart enough"?
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When you develop a convincing enough argument that my original statement was fallacy then I would agree. Instead, you throw out the one line rebuttal which basically says, nothing and expect a result in agreement with your opinion.
As to your answer, Yep you got it correct. If you continue to make the same dumb mistake over and over again and expect a different result I would say those people were not smart enough. Not sure what you would call those people but intelligent isn't the word I would use.
