Or just a lack of common sense?

Reading this month's Atlantic, I came across this poem which serendipitously covers an increasingly common condition which I observe. People, acculturizing themselves to make decisions almost solely on how they feel and eschewing empirical data and simple measurement, get themselves into more and more precarious moral, legal and operational dangers.

Due Diligence
by David Lehman

They didn’t do their due diligence.
They didn’t do it,
And now they rue it,
And how they will rue not doing it
With vigilance when they had the chance.
They talked the talk but didn’t dance the dance.

They committed the folly
Of failing to follow the lolly.
They didn’t learn about the booze,
They didn’t learn about the flooze,
The smack, the jack, and the lolly.
And, in short, they missed the trolley.

They overlooked some obvious flaws.
Why? Was it arrogance
Or the need to spare the expense
Or just a lack of common sense?
Who can say? Whatever the cause,
They failed to observe the clause.

They didn’t do their due diligence.
They didn’t do it,
And now they rue it,
And how they will rue not doing it,
How they will rue the day
They didn’t do their due diligence.