Naples today is chock full of people who wonder why the residents of Pompeii were so dumb. As the very same volcano rumbles over their heads.
You tell your kid that a candle is hot but he keeps playing with it. You finally give up and let him get burned to learn his lesson. People knew very well what a volcano can do but they still build their homes next to it and used it for a playground. They had months of warning from those who know about that sort of thing but they kept coming and refused to leave. God finally let them get burned and they still didn't learn.
Old Harry Truman said he wasn't afraid of any ol' volcano that hadn't erupted in the 50 years he'd been there. He didn't live long enough to learn anything.
