Why do humans keep making the same mistakes over and over throughout  recorded history?
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If people don't see the red light, they plow right through the intersection.\n\nOn a broader view, they don't learn to read until its too late.
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Well this belief is rooted in the hope that tommorow will be much better than today as time goes on man likes to believe that he is learning from the past to make for a better future also the knowledge that will exist tomorrow will be much more comprehensive and thus shorten the margin of error. Unfortunantely this has not always been the case in current history.
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana \n\nIt's not quite the quote you gave, but it's close.
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If you look at the history of the franchise....you will see that no matter how good or bad they are...they always inevitably manage to screw things up.
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Because those of us that don't learn history are doomed to repeat it.
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Most of us do... Maybe not something that we actually did, but something we didnt do!!!  (like saying "I love u" to our ppl, or taking the time to finish a career... how about taking time to go see gramma?)\n\nWe "humans" are not born wise, so we tend to make mistakes in order to learn how to walk our own path...\n\nThe important thing, is to learn from those mistakes, and to avoid guilt, fear, or any hard feeling that poison the heart and distract you from your improving work as a human.\n\nBest Wishes for everyone
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If we go back in history, there was so much violence how can anyone repay what has happened. Everyone no matter what their nationality would find many wrongs. But we have to stop measuring past history by today's standards and beliefs. History tells stories of abuse and violence, who knows what isn't documented. Whether or not you believe the bible, the stories in it are the most violent, but we can't imagine what was going on in our ancestors minds, nor can we even pretend to be able to put ourselves in their place. Whats done is done, and most important is learn from the past and not repeat it and hope that the ugliness never happens again no matter what color or race. Plus we are so intermingled who's to say if we did right some of the wrongs how would we determine who gets what? Who should pay? And would you be willing to pay a price for something a family member of yours did generations back? It takes all I've got just to explain to my kids what I did before they were born!
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they all make mistakes... it's called being human
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I dont think that you ever really figure out who you are we all change constantly...and I have made some mistakes some really big Mistakes but you cant let those mistakes drag you down cuz they will just haunt you forever...just move on say i had a "duhhhhhh" moment and dont stress bout it you cant change the past only the future..
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History is dificult only because people make it that way for themselves.  Most people can see no reason for learning history so they start off with a negative attitude towards it.  Most of our great leaders were also good students of history.  The addage that history repeats itself is the one true constant in history, in that if we can learn from our past mistakes and/or successes we can certainly see how to aviod them or how to repeat them.   The one thing that makes the study of history easier is to have a good memory.  Past history does not change learn it once and you will know it for life.  There may be some new information learn about something or another defintion.  I have found in life that people who tend to like history are those with good memories while those who have trouble remembering things tend to find the subject to be boring.  I think that it is a challenging way to improve your memory.  Good luck!
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I am steve, i Assume you must be american, Yes country's do make mistakes you can't change the past but try to learn from it. It's a shame the american way is still starving the third world through your trade barriers, you are starting world war III with the fight over oil from the middle east. It will be interesting to read the history books in 200 hundred years time and read about what idiots you lot are!!!. All countries have their 15mins of fame, enjoy it
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we just cannot redo our past but can learn from all the mistakes we made in the past. I guess this learning would help develop our aptitude, and so, possibly, we would be able to make a difference in our life unfolding to us
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Come on!  Don't you think it's possible the man made an error?  Baseball players make them EVERYDAY!  Surely you've messed up at some point in your life.  His error was just a very costly one.
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History is repeating itself.\nThat is how the Nazi's began.
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VERY\n\nIf you learn from history you can avoid common mistakes.
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You can't simply erase the past, or stop thinking about it, unless something goes wrong with your memory, because the past is part of the present. What I recommend you to do, which is I am doing now, is trying to live with this past even if you didn't like what happened. We can't change the past, we can't go back and fix the mistakes we've done, others have done or circumstances brought; but for sure we can start new everyday and change the things we're dealing with now.
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The world is the world, and people are people. Human nature hasn't changed one shred since the beginning of recorded history. There are good moments and bad in history. But, in the whole history of recorded time, there has always been violence and war and oppression and anger and such.\n\nThe world may or may not get better, but the point is to make our own little worlds better. Our little worlds of our families and friends and neighbors. That is really as much as we can do.