Even Nobel Prizewinning scientists regularly make gross mistakes venturing into fields outside their specialties . Nobody has a grasp of everything , and those with broad general knowledge must rely on specialists for any serious decisionmaking . The wisest decisionmakers are the most uncertain of all . They may not make the best decisions but at least they ' re open to learning why they are wrong . <| sep |> What I really meant by social is having enough understanding of the human being to develop and sell products that would actually get bought and being able to leverage that understanding into having meaningful social interactions . Not just the number of people you know . <| sep |> Yeah , because the best way to deal with an emotional friend who isn ' t coping with loss well and lashing out is to get just as angry and tell him off , bonus points if you trivialize his own loss by implying you ' ve had it worse . All it would have taken was one paragraph of dialogue to silence Braham and to help him empathise with us , as well . I think you ' re misunderstanding the purpose of this scene . Narratively , we couldn ' t have silenced him because if we did then we would have stopped the upcoming story arc before it could actually begin . We ' re getting heavy hints that Braham attempting to rally the Norn and lead them against Jormag is going to have disasterous consequences , and he ' ll likely have to come to terms with the results of his actions when he realizes this .