(May 9, 2015 at 1:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Everyone who gets scammed by a con artists...be it religion or a phony real estate deal...walks away saying "how could I be so stupid."
It's easy. In both cases you were worked over by professional crooks.
That might be the nicest post of yours I have ever read.
To Rhondazvous:
It is also easier to con people when they are young and impressionable. Everyone starts off naive and dependent, ignorant of the ways of the world, and one typically learns to trust those who protect and raise one. Think of all of the children who are suckered into believing in Santa and all sorts of other nonsense. Pretty much anyone can be conned, and pretty easily, too, if we are talking about when the person is young and impressionable.
So, you being conned when young does not make you more inherently foolish than people generally are. You just lack a superhuman ability to always know the truth, like everyone else.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
