Someone has to finish last...

~If everyone knows that "Nice guys finish last," why are there still nice guys on this planet? If you know your going to lose, why compete at all?  Why do we as "good guys" treat people with respect, dignity, and compassion knowing that inevitably we will be walked on because of it.   I have a theory.  All men want to be assholes deep down inside. "Nice guys" see said assholes doing everything that they only wish they had the guts to do.  But still, us "nice guys" do all the right things, knowing that in the present day it will not benefit us at all.  There is this hope that someday their ways will repay them, and being the "good guy" will give them with some sort of karma based reward for their actions.  A lifetime of this will eventually cause the nice guy to change his ways, grow cold, and become what he always has hated.  For every nice guy that converts there is a new one born every day, because someone has to finish last.~ NR