On 08/10/2016 02:01 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Rossi is unfathomable. I guess the simplest explanation would be that he has nothing. In that scenario, I cannot imagine why he filed a lawsuit. He should have taken the $11 million and run.
Why did Hitler open a second front in WWII? It doomed him to inevitable loss. He did it anyway.
Why were the defecting soldiers, fleeing the Russian army, treated so badly by the Germans? They threw away a possible chance a inducing mass mutiny in Stalin's troops, for essentially no gain. Yet they did it anyway.
Over-the-top overconfidence? Blind inability to see the possibility of failure? I can't understand such behavior, but then I can't understand the behavior that got either one of them to those positions to start with.
It's also possible that people like Rossi are typically far less intelligent than we give them credit for (bluster can look like brains -- when someone says "My IQ is 150!" it's easy to forget that they may just be lying). He may simply not have reasoned through the likely consequences, just because he's /stupid/.
