This thread has revealed some distaste for conmen and witchdoctors (on any side of the fence though especially the most extreme kinds). And some calls to arms against these folks. I have no fondness for them myself. However this group has many biologists and so, everyone here should realize that nature is biased to producing these types of people. Very literally. Nature is designed to produce more cheaters. Women are engineered to mate with charismatic conmen when given the choice (vs. straight laced, upstanding peers), meaning, evolution is designed to produce ever growing quantities of the fraudsters. Therefore the call to arms against these people is a war against human nature itself. The theme reminds me of a synbio paper presentation on yeast, whereby a small segment of the population will cheat neighbors for their own nutrition and growth. An individual battling against this force will always lose against the test of time and the resources of the larger and more evolutionarily advantaged group. Not trying to be fatalistic about it. Whether or not this means the foxes currently outnumber the rabbits and the rabbits need to scale up their armory to slaughter the foxes, I don't know. I only know the cheaters (the fraudsters, the foxes in this analogy) will always exist and there must be some purpose for their existence, otherwise evolution itself would not be biased towards creating them. Or it could be, that god has failed (analogy: nature, and evolution, is broken; but bad men have also claimed this and then claimed that they were attempting to fix nature, leading to disastrous results, so that's a dangerous road to be on). The cheaters are one mechanism for breaking out of local minima.
Now I will go listen to Dystopia.
Now I will go listen to Dystopia.
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