How will people learn if you don't let them make mistakes?

Otto von Bismarck once said 'Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.'  Along with this, there are several other unattributed quote about how an intelligent man can learn from his mistakes, but a wise man can learn from the mistakes of others.

I believe the gist of that to be true...sometimes you are only going to learn by making your own mistakes...and sometimes they really need to hurt to lean them well.

Apparently the fine Nanny Staters public servantsback in D.C. have a different viewpoint on that than I do.  The would prefer to legislate the ability to make mistakes out of existence, starting with introducing the idea of a 24-hour waiting period before you can get a tattoo or a body piercing. 

Obviously...I don't like it for the whole 'nanny state' feel to it.  You CAN'T legislate stupidity.  The tattoo/body piercing industry in D.C. doesn't like it because one can assume a lot of their business comes from spur of the moment decisions by folks, and given 24 hours to think/sober up, you might not want a tramp stamp or ear gauging.

Just let people be dumb.

 I guarantee you won't do it again though.