Experience comes from bad judgment. Laced with wisdom and truth. In most of life's learning curves the experiences of bad judgment are gradually transformed into a solid body of good judgment. There are exceptions, those whose steely stubbornness or fog-bound awareness leaves no opening for the fecund seed of education through experience.
Most humans learn from the mistakes of bad judgment.
They are thus able to live life as a continuously expanding field of knowledge and good judgment. When the apparent ease and false sureness of technology replace the rigors and uncertainties of acquiring good judgment, disaster will soon follow. Nowhere is this more evident than in the backcountry where it is easier to get in more trouble, more deeply, in less time than ever before. The modern outdoor adventurer with sufficient money, a modicum of testosterone, enough bad judgment and absolutely no experience is able to quickly go places and do things that previously required the kind of investment in time and effort and experience that results in good judgment. With these tools the intrepid adventurer can and will and does get in over his or her head so fast that even if good judgment were to suddenly fall out of the sky like a meteorite it would arrive too late to be of use.