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Ian stepping down was dumb, but not because it cost him the million dollars. Say what you want but Ian understood very well that it was going to cost him the million dollars and he decided it was worth it to him. He did it for his own self interests. He saw himself at one of the defining moments in his life and his judgment was that he would be a happier person for having friends, fans, self-respect and the respect of others, than for having money. If he got all that from it, he'd have wound up better than most of the people who go on the show. Here's what's stupid: There's a big reason he made that decision that I didn't list just now. He wanted Katie. He'd gotten very emotionally attached to her and he believed that if he did this incredible thing for her, she would repay him with love and sex and gratitude forever. She didn't. If she even talked to him again more than passingly after the show it's news to me. Since she never offered him any of that it's not good strategy on her part, it's blinding idealism and romanticism on his part and a pitiful lack of understanding of how these things work. I'm not sure he had a shot with Katie anyway but I think he actually killed his shot with her at that moment by creating such a gross inequality and stifling pressure within their relationhip. He emotionally blackmailed her into a kind of informal prostitution - he tried to buy her with money and pressure her into not choosing anyone else with enormous guilt. Almost any guy might have thought that was a good idea and most of us have tried it on a smaller scale at one time or another. It's an awful idea. So he was dumb to give up the million dollars for a goat eating an apple behind Door Number Three and to end up with nothing, including self respect and the respect of others, because not only are we making fun of him but you've gotta know he feels naive and publically humiliated by a girl. Awful.

I'd have to think about what the dumbest move was but generally it would be the move that was least effective at accomplishing the castaways' goal, the move that had the opposite effect of what they wanted. 'Moral' sacrafices like Rodger's or Sugar's or Colby's don't count. Off hand I'd nominate Rafe. I love Rafe but the poor guy wasn't trying to sacrafice himself for Danni. He simply made a completely unnecessary move in giving her the final immunity - once again giving her the 'gift' of shame and guilt - because he assumed she'd honor her word, which anyone could have told him she wasn't going to. And then to make things worse he released her from said promise so she didn't even have that motivation. He was like Ian in reverse. Instead of giving up the million dollars for someone he expected Danni to give up the million for him. That's just presumptous AND naive AND horribly ineffective at accomplishing his goals.