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Dumb enough. Just call it what it is - bad character. There is no person that is so intelligent that he/she can cheat for long and not eventually get caught. I

Dumb enough. Just call it what it is - bad character. There is no person that is so intelligent that he/she can cheat for long and not eventually get caught. If people want to know the truth about a person badly enough, they will.

ixtli 7y ago
isn't this sorta like proving the absence of something? surely for all the people who got caught having two families, some never did! fwiw, i also don't think its a good measure of intelligence, i just think some people configure their lives in such a way where they're better able to get away with things.
- mc32 7y ago
  When I read about people like Nicholas Cage, I come to the conclusion the way people manage relationships is only very loosely tied to intelligence, if at all. Not saying he’s super smart or the opposite, but even Einstein had relationship issues.
jedberg 7y ago
> There is no person that is so intelligent that he/she can cheat for long and not eventually get caught. How do you know? Wouldn't the very best never get caught and therefore we'd never know? How do you explain all of the unsolved crimes?
- cheeky78 7y ago
  Because we didn't have the technology and ability to lookup DNA as cheaply or easily 20+ years ago. I expect unsolved crime to continue to go down as our technology gets better.
  - moate 7y ago
    But that hasn't been the case. Here's a good example: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137/open-cases-why-one-third-of-murders-in-america-go-unresolved https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137/open-cases-why-one-...
rolltiide 7y ago
The President’s foundations would never have been investigated if he didn't run for office. Getting “caught” so far has not mattered and only resulted in further consolidation of power. Correlating that so far with infidelity, the only takeaway is that you should put all your mistresses under an NDA, which also wouldn’t have come up if he didn’t run for office resulting in the feds raiding his lawyer’s office and indicting the lawyer due to conduct that became part of the national spotlight! These are things that don’t happen, so all you have to assume is that the President wasn't the genius that invented these tactics and merely used tools available. The main point I am making here is that this is enough information to rationalize proving an absence: There are many many people like him at least in an even distribution throughout society. Let alone people with a network of enablers.
darepublic 7y ago
Bad character that apparently is a decent winning strategy in the game of genetic reproduction. Sometimes evolution feels like a big prisoner's dilemma.
xwdv 7y ago
Turns out, most of the time people never seek to know the truth about a person that badly, so yes, a lot of people cheat and don’t get caught without needing to be too intelligent. In fact, cheating has little to do with how intelligent you are and how well you are at containerizing different parts of your life so that they never cross. It is ridiculously easy to cheat if you travel a lot on your own.
austincheney 7y ago
Narcissism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism See also psychopathy and sociopathy.

ixtli 7y ago

isn't this sorta like proving the absence of something? surely for all the people who got caught having two families, some never did! fwiw, i also don't think its a good measure of intelligence, i just think some people configure their lives in such a way where they're better able to get away with things.

mc32 7y ago
When I read about people like Nicholas Cage, I come to the conclusion the way people manage relationships is only very loosely tied to intelligence, if at all. Not saying he’s super smart or the opposite, but even Einstein had relationship issues.

jedberg 7y ago

> There is no person that is so intelligent that he/she can cheat for long and not eventually get caught. How do you know? Wouldn't the very best never get caught and therefore we'd never know? How do you explain all of the unsolved crimes?

cheeky78 7y ago
Because we didn't have the technology and ability to lookup DNA as cheaply or easily 20+ years ago. I expect unsolved crime to continue to go down as our technology gets better.
- moate 7y ago
  But that hasn't been the case. Here's a good example: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137/open-cases-why-one-third-of-murders-in-america-go-unresolved https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137/open-cases-why-one-...

rolltiide 7y ago

The President’s foundations would never have been investigated if he didn't run for office. Getting “caught” so far has not mattered and only resulted in further consolidation of power. Correlating that so far with infidelity, the only takeaway is that you should put all your mistresses under an NDA, which also wouldn’t have come up if he didn’t run for office resulting in the feds raiding his lawyer’s office and indicting the lawyer due to conduct that became part of the national spotlight! These are things that don’t happen, so all you have to assume is that the President wasn't the genius that invented these tactics and merely used tools available. The main point I am making here is that this is enough information to rationalize proving an absence: There are many many people like him at least in an even distribution throughout society. Let alone people with a network of enablers.

darepublic 7y ago

Bad character that apparently is a decent winning strategy in the game of genetic reproduction. Sometimes evolution feels like a big prisoner's dilemma.

xwdv 7y ago

Turns out, most of the time people never seek to know the truth about a person that badly, so yes, a lot of people cheat and don’t get caught without needing to be too intelligent. In fact, cheating has little to do with how intelligent you are and how well you are at containerizing different parts of your life so that they never cross. It is ridiculously easy to cheat if you travel a lot on your own.

austincheney 7y ago

Narcissism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism See also psychopathy and sociopathy.