Is naivety a character flaw?

Answer 1

No, in fact it just makes you more alive, more innocent.

Answer 2

No, I do not think you can say that, I see "innocent " naivety as more of an adjective - as in "a state of being", a developemental stage in most of our lives when we were young children, and still believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Faire, the Easter Bunnie, and such. I see naivety as the innocent blind trust in what you have been told with out challenging or investigating that facts of what you have been told, even though the tale is fanciful, magical, or mysitical , - or in some way outside of the the norms of the day-to-day workings of the world in which we live.

Then there is the "dangerously stupid" naivety, or what I call the "Dead Righters". These are the poster children for Darwin's Law on Natural Selection, (That Nature evolves and cleans the gene pool by weeding out the stupid). Example:

A naive young woman is driving along on a highway. she is approaching an intersection, where she has the right-of-way, (the intersecting highway has a stop sign on both sides of the intersection). There is no vegetation for miles , the terrain is flat; and as she approaches thei intersection, she can see that a semi-trailer truck hauling a gasoline tanker is also racing toward the intersection - from her right; apparently with no intention of stopping.

As she gets closer and closer to the intersection, two things become readily apparent; the first is that the semi-truck & trailer are not going to stop at the stop sign at the intersection where she has the rightr of way, and secondly they are both going to be entering the intersection at the same time. But since legally she has the right of way she proceeds at speed into the intersection because she is in the right. She is struck broadside by the semi, and dies instantly. But she was in the right - DEAD RIGHT. In this case you might say that naivety was a charater flaw, but I don't agree, in this case the character flaw was stubborness compounded by gross stupidity. There was no wide eyed suprise here - this was a senseless game of chicken - and she lost .

These days when someone says to someone else "Oh don't be so Naive!, Grow up." I think that the meaning conveyed is "Oh don't be so Silly/Stupid - you dumb a.s.s." Stop pretending that you don't know what's going on here". I'm not sure about this last one - I mean why people pretend / act like they are clueless about what is hapening around them, (young girls mostly), are they really? Or is it just an act, and if so - to what end? Well that's a question that men have been asking them selves for ages, pondered for a few seconds, given up on, and gone off in seach of a beer. Sounds like a plan. Good luck to you,

I'm pulling for you.

Answer 3

Maybe it's not a flaw but being naive can be a bit dangerous in this scary world full of creepizoids. I knew someone who was really naive and it's a wonder nothing bad happened to her.

She had that sense wanting to believe the best in people but it lacked common sense....she was quite naive.

Maybe naivety's more mature cousin would be innocence. It's keeping that open mind n wanting to believe the best of people, and having trust, but adding the ingredients of common sense n trusting one own's intuition.

Answer 4

What Is Naivety

Answer 5

No, ONLY if some people are so PICKY as to call it that.

I was naive, and looking back--I am sooo glad I was ignorant of so many things.

Heck, you grow out of it, anyway,..........

Answer 6

Nope. It just means that you believe the best in everything!

Answer 7

no somthing you grow out of. otherwise, children and babies are flawed

Answer 8

No, as long as you learn from mistakes.

Answer 9

Only if you're proud of it.