Warnings are very important; they can help people in the future. But why should we listen to them? We should really listen to them because the people giving the warning may have experienced the issue before. The warnings can protect us by being prepared in the future for something that might happen. Warnings are here to make us safe and not listening to a warning may cause a lot of problems or injuries.
However, there are plenty of examples for not listening to warnings; one of them would be the story Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. In this story, the character Julius Caesar is told, “Beware the ides of March” and a few other warnings. He ignored all of them and was punished because of it. By not listening to the warnings, he got himself killed. A couple of people tried to warn him about the future, and if he would have listened, it would have saved his life.
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For example, the Tylenol Crisis of the early 1980’s changed the way how medicine companies protect consumers now. The Tylenol Crisis involved a person or people that took bottles of Tylenol off the shelf and laced the pills with poisonous potassium cyanide. At the time, there was no protection or warning on the bottles that would have kept something like this from happening. Sadly, 7 people died from potassium cyanide. This forever changed how the medicine companies protected their customers. Alternatively, if everyone always listened to warnings, humanity would never experience anything new or different. If people always tried to do the safe thing, no one would have ever climbed Mt. Everest, walked on the moon, flown an airplane, or cross the ocean. If early sailors would have listened to the warning about the earth being flat, the world be much smaller right now because no one would have ever traveled anywhere. Cultures would have remained separated and mostly isolated. Sometimes taking a risk against all warning can lead to extraordinary