If someone is ethically challenged and lacks integrity, often they will cheat another out of money in a negotiation or deal. Is the person acting on integrity, stupid or inherently ignorant for allowing themselves to be cheated? If someone gets the better deal and is tricked then the other party is usually considered shrewd, instead of being considered a liar and cheat; why? Is trickery, misdirection, dishonesty and ability to fool others a sign of intelligence? If so, are we are doomed, as smart individuals rise to the top and take advantage of our good nature?

You know, some people believe that the reason humans have such a large brain is so that they can remember all the lies they have told and who they told them too. Those that can remember rise in human society and the primate politics of social groups and thus, have more mates and offspring. Which, bearing in mind the concept of natural selection, the best liars with the biggest brains would eventually fill out the ranks of the human species.

Does the human race therefore, owe their intelligence, as small as it seems sometimes to their unethical nature, lack of integrity and their voids of honesty? Perhaps, in fact, prevailing theory seems to indicate that this is the case. So, if you are intelligent, this would mean that your intelligence is due to your unethical ancestry. Now then, I am not a psychologist or here to psycho-analyze you, but I do have a question for you; How does this make you feel - ha ha ha?