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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jimlock" data-source="post: 5591817" data-attributes="member: 6674931">No one claimed they have a monopoly on cunning, they are just better at it.No one said that Gandalf and Merlin are not smart...or that William Wallace and Sir Lancelot are stupid...It's just that their mind works "differently"...Each one of them thinks and behaves differently, no anyone is necessarily inferior to the other.Look at it this way.If we were to compare a Wizard with a real life profession, we would most likely compare him to a scientist.A scientist is smart, intelligent, his mind has "learned" to work in a way, where, as science is concerned, he is top of the line.On the other hand, he know little of lying, of bribes, of cheating in a card game, of pretending to be someone else on the phone. He might know some of the above, or have an idea of the above, but he's far from being as good as a... say ...streetwise criminal in those domains.That's where a crook is better at. A crook will sell you something 3 times it's value,because he has convinced you that the item is more valuable than it actually is,he will sneak into your home at night while you sleep so as to steal your TV set,he will dress like YOU do so as to enter your office building, ...and he will forge the appropriate papers so as to bypass security etc etc...The scientist will create miracles in his lab, he will revolutionize medicine, mathematics, astrophysics, he will teach you about black holes, but once on the street... he is nothing but a cub................Now... I can't Imagine Gabriele Veneziano and John Schwarz (string theory pioneers) climbing walls likeDavid Bell, lying like Jeffrey Skilling, or fighting like Randy Couture in a ring....Such a guy would be nothing less than a superhero,a boring superman, where you'd probably have to invent some sort of "cryptonite" as a storyteller, soas to make this dull character, al little less dull....Classes are like professions. NO ONE is good at everything.</blockquote>

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