imnota4

imnota4 t1_j8oh0yd wrote

Reply to comment by WaterHaven in Arizona man from Nigeria romance scammed $3M from 'preyed upon' women, feds say by Breab1

This. I think sometimes we as humans have a tendency to feel bad for *anyone* who gets the short end of the stick, not really caring how they ended up there. This can sometimes lead to us doing the *wrong* thing when trying to do the right thing, like grouping together against someone who was actually defending themselves.

In this case, I think people want to see someone who got scammed as a helpless victim that needs help, when in reality almost every person I've met who has been successfully scammed by methods like this was usually someone who thought too highly of their own knowledge and opinions and *refused* to change them, which is why they ended up for lack of a better word and I do apologize for the candid vocab, dumb.

It's one thing to be confident in what you believe and stand by it. It's another thing to go against actual evidence, or actively make things up, in order to justify why you believe something.

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imnota4 t1_iugen65 wrote

Reply to comment by Romano16 in Man accused of sexually harassing 10-year-old, attacking her mother when confronted by InflationOk300

True but I do genuinely believe that our thoughts and actions are not the same normally. Most people have thoughts they won't act on. If a mental illness prevents you from properly filtering your thoughts, you may act on things you normally wouldn't.

To add to this, I also genuinely believe that anyone older than like 30 has had their cognitive functions detrimentally impacted by poisons like lead gasoline, lead pipes, asbestos, etc... that have become less common since the end of the 80's. And I think the scale of this detrimental damage increases the farther back you go.

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