Talk:Ariel/@comment-24238780-20141211180549/@comment-1672596-20141218003332

No, Ariel's NOT stupid. Heck, the fact that she actually does try to investigate stuff proves she's smart.

And I could go on and on about how Belle selling out the Beast down the river was utterly stupid, to Homer Simpson levels, but I think I'll just end it with this thought-provoking question to you: If you were in Belle's situation, you had enough deductive reasoning skills to realize Gaston was trying to blackmail you with Maurice's incarceration into an insane asylum into marrying him, and you observed the villagers basically not believing Maurice's reasonable explanations about the Beast, AND you, by consequence, also would be able to deduce that exposing the Beast to said congregated mob AND Gaston, who already proved himself to you that he is definitely willing to go as far as to resort to blackmail to force you to marry him, would most likely result in the Beast being killed, and in fact the probability is very high that Beast WILL end up killed just by being exposed, not to mention the servants possibly being killed in the crossfire, would you do it? I don't know about you, but my knowledge of probabilities, the risks, and the payoff, would make me NOT expose the Beast precisely because I would realize far too well that exposing the Beast's existence would NOT end well at all, regardless of whether I try to explain Beast is harmless. That's being smart, realistic, and honestly, Belle doing that just proved her stupidity. I know you are a huge fan of her, but guess what, even you have to realize that was a hugely stupid thing she did. I know probabilities, how things work, realize likely outcomes from actions. That's how smart people truly operate.