Do human organizations need cheaters? Why or why not?

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My guess is that most people who decide to speak on this topic will write something like the presence of fraud allows us to evolve and implement higher and higher security standards. It is as if harsh environmental conditions are the driver of the evolution of living organisms. But I would like to share a different point of view.

Fraud is taking someone else's property or acquiring the right to property by deception or breach of trust. Belongs to the criminally punishable acts, the responsibility for which in Ukraine is provided by the Criminal Code.

Wikipedia

...someone else's property...deception... Hmm, interesting words.

So, is there any benefit to cheating? If we really wanted to find it, we could say that thanks to cheating, we are inventing more and more secure systems. Counter question. Why would we have more secure systems if fraud didn't exist?

The purpose of fraudulent actions is always to obtain certain resources. Thus, part of the resources is withdrawn and transferred to the attacker, who usually uses them for another purpose. Therefore, fraud is a resource-consuming and damaging cancer for any system. To prevent this, we have to use resources to invent and maintain various security solutions. Therefore, fraud eats up resources twice.

The moral and ethical side of the issue is even more interesting. Any fraudulent scheme involves the presence of a defrauded person or group of persons. Such people experience material losses, which are always accompanied by insult, pain, in one word - moral damage. Some may argue with me and say that it makes us stronger. But why would we be stronger if we were not at risk of fraud?

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To sum up my brief thoughts, I will say that I cannot find any positives from the appearance of fraud. I think it has no place among people, but unfortunately we will always face it. Precisely because we are humans.

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Emil Zola. Money

All his life he was engaged in terrible robbery—not with a weapon in his hand on the high road, like the noble adventurers of the past, but like a proper modern bandit, who in broad daylight runs his hands into the pockets of poor gullible people, doomed to destruction and destruction.