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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6114502" data-attributes="member: 8835">Yeah, something like that.&nbsp; Freakonomics (an excellent book to challenge how we arrive at our assumptions of things), had a section on a guy who used the honor system to pay for his bagels.&nbsp; He found smaller offices were more honest, large more &quot;anonymous&quot; offices were less honest.&nbsp; I'm too lazy to fetch my book, but if I recall, the approximate percentage was 10-30%.Regardless of the actual number, the percentage was definitely a minority.I agree, there are at times, a lot of bad people on the planet, doing bad things.But we're not all evil.&nbsp; Not even a majority.&nbsp; Otherwise, we'd have just as many &quot;good&quot; people going postal on &quot;bad&quot; people.&nbsp; But it's never that way.&nbsp; You very seldom hear on the news of a &quot;crazy vigilante&quot; wiping out a gang of drug dealers.That's because whatever factor enabled Adam Lanza to walk into a school and kill a bunch of kids, or the Taliban to put a bullet in a school girl's head because she advocated for girls to get educated, the rest of us ain't got that.&nbsp; If we did, then the people of Pakistan would find every Taliban bully and slit his throat in the middle of the night.Most of us can talk big and can enjoy movies like Die Hard.&nbsp; But we ain't got it in us to go the extra mile.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6114502, member: 8835"] Yeah, something like that. Freakonomics (an excellent book to challenge how we arrive at our assumptions of things), had a section on a guy who used the honor system to pay for his bagels. He found smaller offices were more honest, large more "anonymous" offices were less honest. I'm too lazy to fetch my book, but if I recall, the approximate percentage was 10-30%. Regardless of the actual number, the percentage was definitely a minority. I agree, there are at times, a lot of bad people on the planet, doing bad things. But we're not all evil. Not even a majority. Otherwise, we'd have just as many "good" people going postal on "bad" people. But it's never that way. You very seldom hear on the news of a "crazy vigilante" wiping out a gang of drug dealers. That's because whatever factor enabled Adam Lanza to walk into a school and kill a bunch of kids, or the Taliban to put a bullet in a school girl's head because she advocated for girls to get educated, the rest of us ain't got that. If we did, then the people of Pakistan would find every Taliban bully and slit his throat in the middle of the night. Most of us can talk big and can enjoy movies like Die Hard. But we ain't got it in us to go the extra mile. [/QUOTE]

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