Those who choose less rational paths will be replaced, statistically, by those who make better choices, and the human condition will gradually improve. You may think this is cruel, but it identifies a real phenomenon. The idea that wishing will make it so is most deadly when it's applied as public policy. Then, it doesn't matter that you opted to use your head, not when your choices are made for you. The classic case is the Volstead Act.
Prohibition is to blame for a lot that's wrong with America today.
It was the beginning of a popular disregard for the law. Millions of ordinary people who became criminals by fiat overnight, responded by drinking more than ever, many of them for the first time, simply to assert their rights. Those who scream loudest about youth gangs today are the same ones to whom the minimum wage, just another kind of Prohibition, is a sacred article of faith. Never mind that any job at a buck an hour beats no job at five. Never mind that minimum wage generates unemployment by punishing those who would otherwise hire young, unskilled workers.