| Low intelligence? That's your only theory? Mate, I've met lawyers who sent millions to Nigeria. They're not low intelligence. They're very smart people. Who were very desperate and clung to a highly irrational hope because they really needed one. Also, they often believed that it couldn't be a scam, because they were intelligent, and only dumb people get scammed. Quod Erat Demostrandum... Now, were they low wisdom? Definitely. The old joke that "intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad", is still very true. Plenty of intelligent people do very dumb things all the time. Nexium, Scientology, a guru's cult who may or may not commit biological attacks at local salad bars. All have intelligent people involved. After all, they couldn't have cultured their salmonella if they didn't. |