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One Must Experience To Benefit In A Gaining Of Logic.
One must first experience a event to figure out i shouldn't do this. Now there are exceptions but they generally still have a few temptations of what they decided was bad and didn't try. One must have either aids or a unexpected pregnancy to figure out hey maybe i should have used protection. Or suffer from lung problems and heart problems to figure out hey maybe i shouldn't smoke.
 Smito  04 Jul 2008 16:24
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Experience is the best master of all.
 
 joe9  10 Jul 2008 11:21
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I agree apparently some people didn't see where you said their are some exceptions. If I read all I can about lets say mountain climbing then I go climb a mountain which do you think I will most remember?
 
 boy2girl31  05 Jul 2008 03:27
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Okay....................so experience is the best teacher.
But if you learn to watch others demises you can avoid a similar fate, correct?? ;-)
 
 Scorpion  05 Jul 2008 01:50
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 No entirely I may also watch that guy suffering from kidney failure have great fun while drinking.
by  Smito
 05 Jul 2008 03:08
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You don't have to eat everything edible in the world just to find out what's poisonous or bad or you. You don't have to get a 3rd degree burn to learn to avoid a flame. You don't have to catch an STD to figure out it's a bad thing to catch one.

Also science has shown that even much lower animals, like squid, can learn by observing the actions of other squids instead of having to experience everything themselves. In one study a squid watched another squid figure out how to take a lid off a food jar and then right away it knew how to accomplish the same task itself. If squids can do it without direct experience then surely people can learn without direct experience too.
 
 Grenache  05 Jul 2008 01:50
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 "You don't have to get a 3rd degree burn to learn to avoid a flame." You don't but then again with 3 degrees of burns you probably would learn with a 1st degree.
"You don't have to catch an STD to figure out it's a bad thing to catch one." True but then again how many people have unprotected sex get a STD all the while knowing about STDs and the risks in getting them. After getting the STD im pretty sure they wont ever have unprotected sex again though.
"Also science has shown that even much lower animals" Not entirely sure what you mean by lower? Stupider?
Is it not direct experience to watch your brother die of aids? Anything that you can "watch" is direct experience because you can see what happens and the effects it causes. Now if im reading a book and it says sphyillus causes insanity and death what's going to have more effect on me reading about it or watching your best friend go crazy and die?

And yes i did change my point of view a bit after reading all the reply.
by  Smito
 05 Jul 2008 03:14
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I don't see what point you are trying to make. We all make mistakes, and choices, not all of which are good but that's our right as a human being.
 
 beth16  04 Jul 2008 18:20
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 "but that's our right as a human being." Ok..... then what about other species of animals do they have the right to make mistakes?
by  Smito
 05 Jul 2008 03:09
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Its multiple things but the key are experience(environment) and taught.
 
 moreno  04 Jul 2008 17:22
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