Silly Choices

Today I attended a workshop, primarily to get some on-going training for my license, and I made the comment that we humans are pretty silly, that we do some pretty silly things.  These things can be relatively trivial such as being drawn into the drama of a news story or the things I am referring to can be more serious such as the hate crimes or even wars and killing each other.  I call them silly for two reasons.  The first reason is that, historically, they do not lead to positive results or the desired results, and we keep doing them anyway.  The second reason that I consider the actions to be silly is that many people think they are important, while they have little or no long term significance.