> Honest people finish dead last in the race that is life. The winners are people who know where to draw the line between honesty and God Damn Lies(tm). It dep

> Honest people finish dead last in the race that is life. The winners are people who know where to draw the line between honesty and God Damn Lies(tm). It depends on what race you're running. The problem is letting the con artists define the race - for money, for power. If you are running for something else, the cons are the ones that are losing. For some reason, our society defers to the cons, especially these days. The cons disparage honesty because it doesn't work in their race - how can you be an effective con if you act honestly? - and they don't understand how to operate it; they've accumulated skills and habits in manipulation, not honesty (which takes skill and experience to do effectively in real life situations).