OT: Are People Really Dumb Enough?

[Me Loonn]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

A sucker is born every day.

Actually:

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell



[ April 26, 2003, 14:29: Message edited by: Me Loonn ]

[geoschmo]

If I hang out in a London hotel wearing Nigerian style clothing will some stranger come up and hand me their life savings? Hmmmmm.

[Thermodyne]

You guys have it some what wrong. It’s greed that makes this work. And it is the greedy victims who should shoulder the blame. These greedy bastards run off the meet some Nigerian
because the think they can make some money with little effort on their part. Well, most of them get the return that they deserve. Most of them are too lazy to make a few inquiries into the
bonifidies of their new business partners. Personally, I think that they need their signs tattooedto their foreheads.

[ April 26, 2003, 15:51: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]

[Taera]

thermo, im glad you have such high opinions on humanity but the answer is, as they said, ALWAYS YES. Greed, agreed, but i also want to get that money, do i run out to the hotel?

Nope Thermo, you understimate the human race.

[ April 26, 2003, 21:32: Message edited by: Taera ]

[Me Loonn]

Originally posted by Taera:
Nope Thermo, you understimate the human race.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Taera:
thermo, im glad you have such high opinions on humanity but the answer is, as they said, ALWAYS YES. Greed, agreed, but i also want to get that money, do i run out to the hotel?

Nope Thermo, you understimate the human race.

My friend, you must be young or unexposed. In my life’s experience, which included some time in the third world and a few moments behind the old iron curtain, I have found that the human ability to be stupid is exceeded only by it’s ability to believe as fact that which is unsupported by
evidence.

[BBegemott]

Are People Really Dumb Enough?

The question is what do you trust more: your luck or statistics. A lot of people trust their luck much more. That is why casinos and sport betting companies are for.

[Taera]

thermodyne, i am young. and i know how powerful is the greed drive. but i have my, if limited, experience to judge by. i am not a foolish youngling.

[Taera]

ack i wont be getting into this discussion too deep... it all depends where and how you lived and your view on the world. im not that bad inclined towards humanity, i just... enough.

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Taera:
i am not a foolish youngling.