As I See It, Man has to learn from his own Experience and not that of Others

As I see it, people will always get themselves caught up in the minefield, so it is debatable how much value there is in telling them not to do this and not to do that, as it seems that man has an inalienable drive to have to learn - if at all - from his own experience, as opposed to the less harmful process of learning from those who have gone before.

This is probably partly because of our tendency to think it will be different, or that we have in fact learnt from those who have gone before, of what to avoid, so it will not happen to us.
Yes, this kind of thinking has something to do with the child who believes in magic, or the alcoholic who deludes him/herself into thinking that it will be different this time.

It is therefore probably more productive and instructive that we spend more time helping people to get back from the edge, as it were, instead of trying to dissuade them from going there.