How Comes It’s the Bad Boys Who Get Away with Things?

Statistics confirm that bad guys always get away with their vices and the good guys who fumble just once get caught on that one chance. This cuts across the board and spectrum. Careers and hobbies. Palaces and slums.

Carlos the Jackal, a famous terrorist, wreaked havoc in the ‘70s and ‘80s and slipped out of the limelight until his arrest in the late ‘90s. There are more high-profile drug lords and radical leaders that went on for a long time and when it was thought that they were invincible, the authorities caught up with them.

But these are not my focus. Your typical bad boy next door, or that one person that is a nuisance to many people and is seen to easily get away with misdemeanors, is what I am discussing.

Clearly, practice makes perfect. The bad guys have done it so many times that they have managed to reduce their acts to reflexes, a bit like tying a shoelace or riding a bicycle. You don’t think about it as you do it. The liar is able to tell a lie better than he is able to speak the truth.

All these bad guys and girls, just to strike a good gender balance, have the benefit of training and practice. A person who gets away with bad things often must be marked in your mind. That mental note will save you money. These are the same people who proposition you for business partnerships.

Several Personal Assistants seem effective to their bosses because they get things done or make things happen. But often, it is at the expense of several people. The working environment that requires a bribe here and a hard elbow there make for a perfect setting for the bad guy type PA. imagine how one deals with a society riddled with corruption and lawlessness. The boss wants desired results delivered on short notice and he has resourced the PA enough to do just that. These are the jobs that make our youngsters think of such undertakings as macho.

In fact, there is a guy who has honed his confidence from being an international errands boy for a prominent figure in the country. This guy is of just below average English speaking proficiency but is confident, though he has no academic certificates save for, a birth certificate, national identity card, marriage certificate, some car logbooks, and title deeds to boot. Recently, the man spoke condescendingly at a career banker when challenged on his views about the economy. This guy asked the banker about the university they attended if at all they did.

And he was informed accordingly that indeed, the banker was a graduate of economics. The errands boy then claimed that he held an MBA in some funny-sounding discipline. A quick fact-check called him out as a fake guy. He had no known classmates from the famous university, and he could not mention a single professor at his time there.

Much as he was caught, he has lied so often for so long that he now believes in his own lies. That is where the confidence comes from.

But we also contribute to the bad guys’ success. For our own personal stuff, we are very particular. But when someone is viewed through our lazy public eyes, we let them get away too quickly with lies. The public always accommodates rumours about others without fact-checking. We have no time for details, so we simply solve the challenge by believing what we are told about others. Remember that we must coexist. This means that most of what we have from coexisting needs further refinement, lest you get taken advantage of easily.

So, add their well-practiced acts to our lazy accommodation of things mentioned, and we allow the bad guys to thrive right under our noses.

Are you still wondering why the bad guys often get away with things or are you now in a better position to stop them harming or lying to you? Have a wonderful week ahead.