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Law #13: Humans are innately opportunistic.

The pic?  Why that's the Opportunity Mars rover.  It has absolutely nothing to do with this post other than it's called Opportunity.

I got to thinking that whoever coined the phrase "crimes of opportunity" wasn't too far off from unlocking the true nature of humans.  The concept is simple.  People are perfectly ok with lying, cheating, and stealing so long as they are provided with the opportunity.  The average human's ability to find opportunity is almost instinctual.  The ability shoots to astronomical levels when people are aware they can actually exhort opportunity without fear of retribution.

It's not particularly a bad instinct though.  It's just bad most of the time.