Look At All Those Idiots

Occasionally, you will sit down and read a book, watch a show, play a game or go to a movie and come out of it wondering how the hell the plot even managed to happen given the reasonable assumption that most humans have basic simian common sense. Looking back at the story, you find that every step of the way, every decision made by almost everyone in the story was the wrong one and not due to poor information or bad luck. When you stop and think about it, the only reason the story even exist...