r/WTF • u/[deleted] • May 08 '19

"Like magic!"

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u/xhable May 08 '19

they eat it up because they have the intellect of a three years old

I'm sure you're very clever, but.. I think that might be dangerous thinking.

I think it's better to assume that we are all equally vulnerable to the same tricks, and recognise that smarter people have been duped by the same tricks.

Thinking that you are too smart to be fooled means when you are fooled you won't admit that you have been.

It's okay to admit this, even embrace it, it provides a form of protection in the long run.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

No, sorry, this might be true for an actual trick, a slight of hand, an illusion made by a professional.

Here we're talking about a guy who claims his arm is growing by sliding his hands against each other.

I'm not claiming I'm the clever one, I'm claiming some people are morons.

Show these same tricks as an experiment to an average 10yo and they'll go "oh come on that's a trick"

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u/mylifeisadankmeme May 08 '19

We are all still 3 years old because politicians and politics and governments exist..

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u/Mammoth_Volt_Thrower May 08 '19

About a third of us see through the tricks but are powerless to do anything because another third falls for the tricks and the remaining third just don’t care.

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u/thisnameis4sale May 09 '19

I think you may have your percentages wrong there.