Why don't people at least *try* to get things right?

[nancylebov]

Failures of conscientiousness lead to a smaller bank robbery than otherwise would have happened

Link thanks to andrewducker.

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[thnidu]

Failures of conscientiousness [by the crooks] lead led to a smaller bank robbery than otherwise would have happened

... but the bank's failures of conscientiousness also led to the robbery in the first place.

[nancylebov]

Exactly.

[siderea]

Why don't people at least *try* to get things right?

I generally found the hardest part in providing psychotherapy to prison inmates – including a whole bunch of bank robbers, actually – was resisting the temptation to give them concrit on their crimes.