In the phrase "all's fair in love and war", love and war aren't (or at least shouldn't) be meant metaphorically. This isn't war and it sure isn't love. (Which also isn't referring to the full set of the million things "love" can mean but specifically to romance.)
Sometimes, when you get a reputation for behaving unethically, you limit the types of people who will do business with you. Consequently, you paint yourself into an unethical corner. When the only people who will do business with you are unethical, it increases the amount of risk you face in each transaction. Moreover, when you do get taken advantage of, few people care as you reaped what you sow.
On the other hand, if you behave ethically, other ethical people will be drawn to you. This lowers your risk per transaction. And, I suspect it will help you sleeP a little better at night!
I am not sure that everything is fair in love and war. The ideas of "cheating on someone", and "banning clorine gas" might be taken as the counterexample.
Certainly I would avoid a known backstabber in business to the point of not doing business with them, even if they had the better financial terms.
> Banning clorine gas was a silly thing to do -- it didn't exactly stop the next war and only made the concept of war less terrifying.
This is such a silly statement I don't know where to begin. They knew there was going to be another war, did they? How did it make the concept of was less terrifying? WW1 was the "Great War" because it was the first time war was terrifying for everyone (except the stupid British generals, but don't get me started).
On this statement, one would disagree with the nuclear non-profileration treaty and think that WMDs are ok because war would be more terrifying.
Sorry. I should have specified that the list was based on availability in the US iTunes store. Another oddity someone pointed to is that "Scott Pilgrim vs. the world" is on the iTunes OK store too but when I checked it wasn't in the US one (it's a fact that annoys me as I'd be happy to buy that one :) )
Yeah, people were booking for the holidays ahead of time during the summer. The holidays are peak time for Airbnb and other travel companies so I'm not sure what the original poster thinks this shows exactly. Certainly people weren't traveling less in December!
