LAST EDITED ON 10-21-10 AT 05:54 PM (EST)No, I have to disagree. True having a disability and having a great personality can both be strikes against you, but I don't remember anyone saying pre-merge, or heck, even from the VERY FIRST day in camp- "That person is too nice. No one will want to sit next to them in the FTC. So, we'll have to get rid of them."
Yes, now postmerge we have had people targeted for being nice, but that is usually only an endgame consideration. And ironically, two of the main people I remember who were targeted for being too nice- Lil and Amanda, both made it to the FTC anyway and neither won. So, people's concern appeared to be unwarranted.
JT was so nice people actually WANTED him to make it to the end.
So, yes, being nice can get you targeted near the end, but it can also help you win the game. I'm not sure anyone has ever won Survivor without being nice to someone. Even Russell was nice to his inner alliance, though it wasn't enough to get him a win.
In the inverted morality world of Survivor, where lying is looked at as good and telling the truth or trusting someone is looked at as bad, it has become perfectly okay for people to not only NOT treat the handicapped like normal human beings, but rather, it is acceptable to actually single them out BECAUSE they are handicapped.
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