Perhaps I was unclear, but I'm actually faithful in my relationship. I was attempting to play devil's advocate. My logic isn't faulty at all; the logic that people get exactly what they deserve in life, however, is completely flawed. Bad things happen to good people everyday. They're cheated on, someone they love dies, they are treated unfairly at work, etc. Who knows WHY this happens? It's God's will. It's not the magic of karma saying, you did this something bad years ago now it's coming back to you. Or else, like I said, someone owes me free passes for years of cheating!

2buff: What goes around will come around. If you sow cheating, you will rip cheating bountifully.
What makes you think you will then escape a future situation of coming back home from work and kissing your spouse not knowing that that same mouth has been [b]vigorously [/b]milking & sucking random corks all day? (or hubby eating random kitty all day for the cheating women)

I do believe you reap what you sow. I also believe that misfortune sometimes comes in reverse. I was in a relationship for 6 years and was 100% faithful while he cheated on me the entire time. I didn't know and when I found out I kept asking God why would this happen to me, but maybe it was because I was going to do the same thing someday. If karma is right, I deserve to cheat for at least the next 5 1/2 years and suffer no consequences *shrugs*

I worked at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for 6 years and the thinking behind it is excellent. NSF funds 80% of the science and innovation in the country. It's the reason countless students majoring in science/engineering fields can afford to go to university. NSF funded the expansion of the Internet as we know it and gave grants to the founders of everyone's favorite search engine-- Google. Without NSF, much the technology that makes the modern world run would not exist.

That being said having lived in Nigeria, the majority, if not all of the money is going to be embezzled. It's so sad because if the money was actually used this model would actually help bring Nigeria into a new age My Directorate's budget was $1 billion USD and it really went to universities for research. Even my small university got a $1 million dollar grant. I wish the Nigerian government could be honest enough to help it's own people like that, but I won't hold my breathe