I don't. I believe that such immoral strategies are in fact easier to pull off than legitimate ones, that's why I called it "exact opposite of smart". It seems to me that it's you who's confusing "smart" with "successful".
Absolutely. Fouling and breaking the rules does not make you a better football player just because the referee did not notice. You won, but you're not smart, you're a cheater. Playing by the rules requires more effort - you need to be smarter to win.
> Fouling and breaking the rules does not make you a better football player just because the referee did not notice. You won, but you're not smart, you're a cheater. Playing by the rules requires more effort - you need to be smarter to win.
A smart person dutifully operates as best they can within the rules.
But a smarter person realises that actually the rules aren't what everyone thought they were in the first place.
There's lots of examples in history.
Navies originally thought that submarine warfare was unfair somehow or against some unwritten gentlemanly rule. The less smart thing to do would be to take that rule and not use submarines. The smarter thing to do would be to say 'don't care' and build submarines anyway.
Football isn't a good example because you're volunteering to play by the rules in the first place.
Operating inside someone else's artificial rules is not smart.
An immoral person can be smart. And in fact it's a common and dangerous mistake to assume someone's stupid because you think they're immoral.