ConnedswiftyisNOTevil writes, "I have recently become obsessed with the BBC Three show 'The Real Hustle' - personally, I think of it as a 'How To' show for aspiring con artists."
Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube that you are?
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chthonic, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 13:02)
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er, I guess psychoanalysis is a bit of a harsh word for my post!But I was interested in why your desire for a ps2 was bigger than any empathy you might have felt for the person you were ripping off. Your reply just says "I wanted the ps2 because I wanted it".
Which isn't really a very revealing answer. I guess either you don't really know why, you don't want to say why or it really is just that simple. But if the trivial desire to own possessions is stronger in you than sympathy for other people then that does make you sound a bit cold (possibly a tiny bit sociopathic, who knows).
On the whole "stupid people deserve fleecing" topic, I'll just say that you should be glad that the majority of people don't think that way. However smart you are, there will always be people smarter than you.
Similarly I'm very glad that most people don't believe that "weak people deserve beating up".
And I don't feel that way because I'm afraid of being fleeced all the time. I'm neither weak nor stupid and I would do just fine in a dog eat dog world. I just don't enjoy stealing from people.
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