unedited 3/29/08

 

               CUNN

 

Cunning

The American Heritage Dictionary defines cunning as "1. shrewdly deceptive. 2. Exhibiting ingenuity. 3. Delicately pleasing: 1 Skill in deception: guile 2. Dexterity. The definition of guile is. In short, cunning is about systematically deceiving a person. Consciously going out of ones way to extract money and emotion from a person might not seem to be an ethical action. Cunning as a function of mathematical game theory, where a well-intending business person is responding tit-for-tat to a client with his own cunning strategy seems a little more ethical.

 
 

 

  • Survival
  • Constructive Fraud
  • Constructive Taking