Originally posted by TheGoodEarth:
[b]the_fallen: your first post was very
informative. I've not watched the programme but you have given a
very good summary... thank you.
Indeed, there are are lot of mistaken notions or myths about
cheaters. We take them at face value but we know very little deep
under.
Since the 'beginning' of time, when man was 'created' or so ......,
there was already good and bad
and it had been around since. This simple categorisation is
correct. We can generate a lot of discussions on these but note
that all mainstream religions have already address this issues a
long long time ago.
So I think let's be focused here:
What exactly drives a person to cheat?[/b]
thank you for your compliment.
to understand more about the real value of cheaters and the
consequences of cheating..we can easily find out more information
from the newspapers, and news infact..
Just that a lot of people find it a hassle to read newspapers and
watch news..
I have quite a lot of articles on different types of cheaters..from
online to real-life..from credit card (middle-age adults victims)
to old seniors (bring tricked by the Apple Gang etc...actually
there's a lot more that I have..
Hmm..
What Drives a Person to CHEAT
Peer Pressure &
Stress
Your question is a bit too general..
There are a lot of different types of cheating..
Cheating in Exams..Cheating Fren's..Cheating
Govt..Cheating Family and their love ones..
Perhaps to reply to general question which you posted..it would be
peer pressure and the lack of such 'thing' that the person has to
get his/her hands on..
Why people cheat is because of the following reasons:
1) No money to buy what they want; (if the item
which they want is considered expensive..so they have to cheat
people's money to purchase it)
2) Peer pressure (being laughed at for still being
a virgin etc...and to drink more wine beer etc..being dared at from
frens who only encourage us to do things which damage our
health..)
3) No access to the status.. (if a person is poor,
from a bad family background..seeing a lot of frens with good
family, and are rich..when this person grows up..either he choose
the right/wrong path to head towards his goal to join the ranks of
wealthy people..) thus many people due to lack of recongition will
choose the faster route (which is the wrong path which only last
for a while only (short-term)