Originally posted by TheGoodEarth:
[b]the_fallen: your first post was very informative. I've not watched the programme but you have given a very good summary... thank you.
Indeed, there are are lot of mistaken notions or myths about cheaters. We take them at face value but we know very little deep under.
Since the 'beginning' of time, when man was 'created' or so ......, there was already good and bad and it had been around since. This simple categorisation is correct. We can generate a lot of discussions on these but note that all mainstream religions have already address this issues a long long time ago.
So I think let's be focused here:
What exactly drives a person to cheat?[/b]
thank you for your compliment.
to understand more about the real value of cheaters and the consequences of cheating..we can easily find out more information from the newspapers, and news infact..
Just that a lot of people find it a hassle to read newspapers and watch news..
I have quite a lot of articles on different types of cheaters..from online to real-life..from credit card (middle-age adults victims) to old seniors (bring tricked by the Apple Gang etc...actually there's a lot more that I have..
Hmm..
What Drives a Person to CHEAT
Peer Pressure & StressYour question is a bit too general..
There are a lot of different types of cheating..
Cheating in Exams..Cheating Fren's..Cheating Govt..Cheating Family and their love ones..Perhaps to reply to general question which you posted..it would be peer pressure and the lack of such 'thing' that the person has to get his/her hands on..
Why people cheat is because of the following reasons:
1) No money to buy what they want; (if the item which they want is considered expensive..so they have to cheat people's money to purchase it)
2) Peer pressure (being laughed at for still being a virgin etc...and to drink more wine beer etc..being dared at from frens who only encourage us to do things which damage our health..)
3) No access to the status.. (if a person is poor, from a bad family background..seeing a lot of frens with good family, and are rich..when this person grows up..either he choose the right/wrong path to head towards his goal to join the ranks of wealthy people..) thus many people due to lack of recongition will choose the faster route (which is the wrong path which only last for a while only (short-term)