It's incredible that the dragon guy was talking as if he learned from history and that the arrogance of the dragons of the past was bad, but then he immediately makes the exact same mistake. The cognitive dissonance in that room is over 9000:slap:
That prince couldn't be more of a moron is he tried. At this point his only option of surviving would be to flee to another country far away to live quietly, but he's going out of his way to meet the chopping block.