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Bingo ! Well said, stevespray. But you see, it is the moral duty of those of us who know to help those who are unaware. Being unaware or uninformed is not being stupid. Being stupid is a persistent affliction that besets many people who are unwilling or unable to think for themselves when the facts are presented.
Not being aware or being uninformed is the consequence of lacking information. This is a very different proposition altogether. None of us are born knowing, we all have to learn.
Some of us have to be made to learn. Some of us have to be forced to learn. Some of us have to be dragged kicking and screaming to be made to learn. Some of us never learn despite whatever efforts are applied.
It is much more comfortable to seek refuge in the pursuit of a dream.
Therefore I agree with you completely.
It never ceases to amaze me to observe how it is that people stand in queues waiting to throw money at the lottery, or in gambling rooms in casinos, how it is that people have an uncontrolled avarice in compulsively pulling at slot machines or acquiring gambling chips only to see the stakes evaporate again and again and again.
Now, not to learn from that, for example, now that in my view, now that is real stupidity, it is the element of stupidity that is part of the dream that cannot be reliably be expected to materialise, but yet they persist, and I cannot understand why they persist.
Every trader ought to visit a casino at least once, not to play, but to witness these weaknesses in the human psyche, at close quarters, for himself.
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