[lexicality]

Eugenics aside, people very regularly follow satnav directions completely blindly, the most recent one I can think of being the person who drove directly into the sea in Hawaii.

If there's an opportunity for learning, it's not being taken

[oneeyedpigeon]

You say "very regularly" but when was the last time you saw/heard about that happening? I'm in the UK and I saw that Hawaii story and I can't remember hearing about anything similar for years. So my conclusion is that, out of an 8bn population, one or two making such a mistake once every few years is nothing.

[lexicality]

I'll grant you that people driving into the sea is not a regular occurrence, but local news of people driving the wrong way up one way streets or onto unpaved roads and getting stuck happens way more often.

I guess on a planetary scale that's vanishingly rare, but most things are at that scale too.

If we're going to think at those levels, nothing that happens in the UK really matters as we're less than 1% of the world's population...