We should studiously avoid looking in our neighbor's windows, exercize caution at intersections and eat a balanced diet. Yet, we have curtains, stop signs, vitamin supplements and a host of other things - because people are people and nary a saint or perfectly programmed robot among us. To paraphrase Rummy, you deal with the species you have, not the one you wish you had.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken