Yes it is, because that's the level you're reducing it at.
You claim to know better, to predict how the situation will turn out, but then you jump in it anyway just so you can say "I knew it!".
I too know how to throw a tantrum in the middle of a supermarket aisle because mommy and daddy aren't buying me what I want, hoping that if I annoy everyone enough, they'll cave in.
But unlike other kids, I also know it doesn't really work that way. I don't know how to do it better, yet I understand that way isn't working. Do you?