...You are likely driving this discussion into another dimension ...
it is not good to be scammer. be smart and decent guy just like the famous old geezers, be like the oracle of the omaha, down to the earth, spend money on value investing, study hard and work hard to earn a living, also the full recipe of perfect life, go to school get good grade, get a good paying job with benefit, get married to a beautiful wife, buy house, get many little kids and work hard for retirement. life is great and simple!
...since I am against ...
that is perfectly fine, really, everybody do not like scammer too, scammer should be despise in life, scammer should go to hell, scammer should punished by the judgement.
...Smart people may not associate with scams...
be smart and be decent guy, make a honest living, don't try to bend the rules, live a simple and laws abiding society, everybody happy. Just like a gentleman, tender and soft spoken.
...limiting himself by the illogical and persuasive arguments...
well, very spot on tbh. congratz.
...smart people and scams, simpler than thinking about whether they are ethical or not...
do not think twice, every scammer, are human scumbag, they are bottom of the barrel, beggars tier vulture being.
...I don't want to go into a long discussion here that is not on the same level of thinking, if you are more persuasive about the argument...
btw, I do not believe in science or believe in religion or believe in god or believe in economics or believe in politics. My teacher once tell me, a
great scientist do not believe in science, they verify the science itself, it is the best wisdom I can give it to you. I do not think being persuasive does make a person morally corrupted.