On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:38:55 -0400, "Painius" <starswirlernosp@maol.com>
wrote:

People can learn from their mistakes ONLY if and when they
realize that they have made a mistake.  People seldom do.

Agreed. Nevertheless mankind as a whole has been very successful;
most people survived long enough to reproduce ... to a degree that
this success became a problem in itself :-) C.