really, people rarely cease to amaze me and i rarely have the patience for them. and yet, it doesn't escape me that i fall into that same category in other people's eyes. my all time favorite bumper sticker, "stupid should hurt" - i love that, although, admittedly i'd be in pain more often than i care to think about.

but wouldn't that be great - everytime you were doing something stupid, you get a sharp pain or whatever and could change your course. maybe it would be pain in degrees - so that sometimes, even if you were doing the wrong thing but wanted to do it anyway, when the consequences of this bad decision aren't enough of a deterrent (and i think we've all been there) - you could just continue down the wrong course with a tolerable amount of discomfort.

i think this would be great. then not only would it help your own decision-making, but we would no longer have to watch and listen to other people's nonsense - b/c the pain would tell them what we no longer had to.

yes, i think if stupid hurt, we'd all be better off.

plus, you have to admit, there is some perverse pleasure out of thinking of some people feeling a wee bit of it as you're being bombarded with their stupidity.

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