More likely, some exotic bacteria gets in the cut and you develop necrotizing fascitis.
Learning from your own mistakes instead of others' is a high-variance strategy. Our culture is better off because of the people that do it, but if you're selfishly looking to maximize your own expected value, you'll put great weight on the majoritarian view.
It would certainly be depressing to live in a world of John Nashes. On the other hand, if everyone were perfect bounded rationalists, we'd merely have to replace Causal Decision Theory and Evidential Decision Theory with something that can solve coordination problems--probably a variant of Timeless Decision Theory, which could already solve this particular problem in many ways.
Learning from your own mistakes instead of others' is a high-variance strategy. Our culture is better off because of the people that do it, but if you're selfishly looking to maximize your own expected value, you'll put great weight on the majoritarian view.