If a person uses deception to gain something, is it really a win?

What it says to me is that they have no confidence in achieving it by being real.
This win would be hollow at best.

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It's all a matter of perspective, I suppose. I don't think a person willing to use deception toward their own ends is concerned about how well earned the win feels. I do agree that a deceptive win is a hollow one, however.

SW-User

@UndeadPrivateer Do you not think it eventually catches up? Somewhere along their lives they realise they lost themselves pretending to be all these other things?

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@SW-User Absolutely I think it does, but I think they get caught up in the act of the deception and being able to gain rewards out of it and stop caring about possible consequence. Just keep riding the lies and going as far as they'll possibly go. We've been watching this play out rather dramatically on the world stage with a certain artificially tanned man with a red tie.

SW-User

@UndeadPrivateer Ah perhaps they never even realise why they are forever so ...in their negative state and never come out of it. But their subconscious perhaps does realise.

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@SW-User Indeed. It takes a certain level of metacognition to recognize just how intensely deleterious being that kind of manipulator is. Not everyone has that.

SW-User

@UndeadPrivateer What a pity.