Bruce,
Of course I have the desire to win without cheating, but let's dicuss how you would handle a real life situation. You are closely matched with an opponent, but you know your opponent is cheating and you know that unless you cheat to level the playing field you will lose. Do you cheat or just accept defeat. When you know you can beat someone even if they cheat and you don't, they probably know it too and there is no payoff for cheating.
Chris
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Cohen <brucedcohen2002@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [vpFREE] Re: "BIG teams became extinct due to IRS pressure"
> To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 9:36 PM
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> Frank,
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> Your posts are always entertaining and I am looking forward to reading your book because I have that availability bias thing from reading your posts.
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> However. I would not claim to know that a poster meant "everyone he knows" instead of "EVERYONE." Actually there are a number of possibilites for what the poster is really saying. He may not know anyone who has admitted not reporting taxable income, but his opinion of human nature is that everyone (100%) will underreport or not report cash income if they believe they can get away with it. He may mean 99% and is just rounding up to 100%.
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> Many people apply a different morality to "cheating" involving taxes, insurance, big corporations, etc. There is another morality for those playing sports where cheating is actually secretly and not so secretly admired by many. I have been told that if I am not willing to cheat then I really don't have the neccesary desire to win.
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