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Old 10-21-2009, 08:28 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by GirlySports View Post
I'm very realistic and analytical to a fault. I don't live in fantasyland where I fall blindly in love with a guy even though he's handsome and a jerk. I look for many things that have to be compatible. I come off very snobbish that way.
Yes, but that's you. Few people are that in control of their emotions, and I'm certainly not.

I think the majority of people are more in line with "that compulsion to do things that you know are not a good idea precisely because they aren't good ideas". It's not so much being conned, as weighting the short-term as being far more important than the long-term; people aren't dumb so much as insufficiently far-sighted.
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