No more
Mister Nice Guy
No more Mister Clean,
No more Mister Nice Guy,
They say he's sick, he's obscene.
Is it
better to be Nice than to be Competent?
I am replaying in my mind
an argument with my late father-in-law from years ago. I wish he were here so I
could tell him that he was right. We
both agreed that if a person were nice and competent, we would choose him. We both agreed that if a person were nasty
and incompetent, we would not choose him.
We disagreed over the other mixtures. My father-in-law argued for nice but incompetent,
while I argued for nasty but competent. I said that I would choose a mechanic
who was nasty and competent rather than one who was nice but incompetent. I would like to change my vote.
A nice person is unlikely to
lie about the answer. A nice person is
likely to admit when he originally gave a wrong answer. I can
not always judge a person’s competence.
A nice person will tell you when he incompetent. A nasty person might tell you that he is competent even when he is knows that he is incompetent. In my opinion,
nice and incompetent IS better than nasty and competent.
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