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Why Are People So Easy to Swindle?

andersonnnunes

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One more thread to make the 'What's new' page be all 'Me!Me!Me!'!

Excerpt from a blog post by the Maverick Philosopher:

The older I get the more I appreciate that our problems, most of them and at bottom, are moral in nature. Why, for example, are we and our government in dangerous debt? A lack of money? No, a lack of virtue. People cannot curtail desire, defer gratification, be satisfied with what they have, control their lower natures, and pursue truly choice-worthy ends.

Full post here.

We shall lie, cheat and steal, but, as long as we fall, we don't hit the ground, so it is alright.
 
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