I still have trouble that people don't want to accept that cheating has occurred. If adult-aged people cheat in online MMORPGs, first person FPSs, online children's block building games, and just about every online game in history at one point, for very little reward beyond the hit of dopamine from getting one over on the next guy, or extra in-game gold, it stands to reason there is going to be an extreme desire to do so when the stakes are incredibly high, and so much power and influence is the prize? People cheat on their tests, their spouses, people try to stretch that fish they caught so it fits into the legal slot size, hunt out of season etc. Still, people I talk to don't want to hear it. Obviously cheating is practiced everywhere. Are the people who deny seeing it compulsive cheaters, and they see the acknowledgment of cheating a reflection on themselves? Or maybe, like in another part of this world, it's seen as the other party deserves to get taken advantage of by the more effective cheater, and therefore deserves to lose? (Isn't there a country in this world where this idea on cheating is socially acceptable?)
If nothing else we should get rid of electronic voting/counting, but then again, even after 2000, it's still here, maybe their will be a new push for less electronic elections. Maybe I am being optimistic....if Canada can do it, why can't we?
