{"id":711,"date":"2008-06-27T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2008\/06\/2008_06_27_0030.php"},"modified":"2008-06-27T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T16:30:15","slug":"bad-boys-really-do-get-the-most-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/27\/bad-boys-really-do-get-the-most-girls","title":{"rendered":"Bad boys really do get the most girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19826614.100-bad-guys-really-do-get-the-most-girls.html\" title=\"view article\">official<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the winning comment I saw was:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This concludes an episode of <em>&#8220;WELL FUCKING DUH!&#8221;<\/em> theater.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in next week for the next episode: <em>&#8220;Guess what color the sky is!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!--more-->\n<p>Jokes aside, instead of using terms from the article like <em>dark-triad<\/em> and such, I would like to use &#8220;risk-takers&#8221; to describe these &#8220;bad boys.&#8221; Because good and bad is all just relative.<\/p>\n<p>The meek will inherit the Earth eh? Sorry to say, as comforting as the beatitudes sound, living by them in modern times will literally result in you having a boring, uneventful life of ignorance. Meanwhile, the risk-takers are drinking your milkshake! So who exactly does the inheriting here? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Face it, risk-takers experience a fuller life compared to the conservatives. They former may have <strong>a lot<\/strong> of hits and misses, but if you would compare their lives as a whole, I&#8217;m willing to bet my right eye that the when looking back, the latter will always have regrets while the former would feel&#8230; <em>complete.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I really think the reason people are conservative isn&#8217;t really because they&#8217;re genuinely &#8220;morally upright,&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_711_1('footnote_plugin_reference_711_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_711_1('footnote_plugin_reference_711_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_711_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_711_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Because human tendencies clearly tell us that we&#8217;re not built that way.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_711_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_711_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> but because they are conditioned to <strong>fear<\/strong> that which they perceive to be &#8220;bad.&#8221; That&#8217;s why they end up being repressed in the long run. 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