"Don't do anything stupid" would have greatly simplified my campout/activity speech.
I know the unwritten Thirteen Point of the Scout Law; all Scout leaders know the unwritten Thirteen Point of the Scout Law.
From now on I'll be sharing an unwritten Fourteenth Point thanks to Frank, even though it ruins the parallelism of the Scout Law.
"A Scout doesn't do anything stupid."
“Fire flame explosives or magnesium based explosions are NOT a shortcut to a good campfire.”
The problem with resolving to not do stupid things is that one’s resolution is circumvented by one’s inability to know at the time that a thing is stupid.
Speaking as an expert here, we do stupid things because we think we are doing something ordinary, but we are unaware that we are overlooking the information that will tell us that what we are doing is stupid.
Case in point; the recent attempted child-snatching in which the escaping perpetrator tried to elude pursuit by going into a house through a doggy-door.
Perhaps he failed to consider that the reason this residence had a doggy-door was because they had dogs.