Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)

http://www.ted.com Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.

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[hempartist420]

we are sooo fortunate to live in this age of science, to be able to sit down at a computer and enjoy these wonderful intellectuals and their incredible ideas from the comfort of our own home

[patrickallen13]

Egoraptor knows his shit

[AcruxSolus]

@karolis685 That isn't a new or unique hypothesis. In fact, that has been common knowledge for millenia.

[karolis685]

The thing that cought my attention is when Dan said he experienced pain when bandages were being removed, and then later this experience led him to undertake scientific investigation, however perhaps if he wouldn't of experienced as much pain, maybe he wouldn't of achieved as much as he has, and maybe he wouldn't of been on TED.

What I'm trying to say is that - I have a hypothesis that negative experiences aren't all that bad and it might lead to great things for an individual in the future

[jjgfun]

There is most likely another factor influencing the nurse’s decision to remove the bandages fast. They may have a lot of patients and removing the bandages fast gives them more time to get their duties done with the other patients. In that sense having more nurses could alleviate the problem.

[y3wt3wbz]

wow i only recently found this channel, and i absolutely love it.

[mindnumber9]

commercial at the END of the vid, i like!

[PalerLaze]

A PERSONAL FUDGE FACTOR

[JustSomePerson888]

say i knew someone cheated me - but they used eg occult methods to do so, things that lies force us to have to pretend don't exist - or the same evil that causes that can take our few freedoms away from us (eg label you insane if you tell the truth about what they used to cheat you). so if used a more conventional (or any other kind) cheat to stop them cheating me, then that is ok, because it's only in response to an original wrong and otherwise i wouldn't need to do so.

[JustSomePerson888]

morally & ethically etc it isn't ok to cheat, it's the same as how it isn't ok to lie. but - say you smoke weed. now lies have been used to make weed illegal in some places, so - if you have to lie about smoking/using weed then that isn't really a lie, since evil lies are to blame for making it illegal to begin with, so you may have to lie so your freedoms are not further removed or compromsied.

so where cheating or lies is the original cause...it's ok to use them against the original cause.

[RobT89]

\this guy is a fucking genius, I love genuiuses

[cheko7550]

the commercial at the end of the video is weird.