And a willingness to risk your job for pussy when there are many less risky options available is a measue of stupidity.
No, not at all. You seem to confuse a legitimate difference in one's evaluation of the risk/reward ratio of a situation with intelligence, and they have nothing to do with each other. Courage is not doing something when you're unaware of the consequences. If I pull a guy out of rainforest tribe who's never seen a gun and has no idea what they can do, and teach him to play Russian roulette, he's not being brave, or smart. He has no idea what can happen. If you or I choose to do it, its not stupidity, its captain fucking courageous, because we DO know the potential outcome. Same activity, entirely different amount of courage required. But intelligence doesn't enter into it.
The potential outcome from an LE sting is exactly the same for both of us. Possible loss of livelihood, spouse or SO, community respect, etc. You have judged that that risk is simply not worth taking, regardless of the reward (and that reward, when toftt, is simply a new or previously unknown girl, when there are plenty of known ones around). And that's fine. Other people look at the same risk/reward situation, and arrive at a different decision. There are leaders, and there are followers. You choose to follow. Its a legitimate choice, and I don't fault you for it (tho Banacek's post #285 is 100% spot on in terms of this board, and it's purpose, and what would happen if there were only followers, and no one to lead).
But don't confuse your own personal assessment of the risk/reward decision with intelligence in any way. Columbus was a brave mother fucker, because when he set sail from Spain, he knew more than likely he'd never be back. He was also one smart SOB. The risks were huge, but he judged the rewards to be even greater.
So don't call people stupid. Just accept the fact that their balls are bigger than yours, and get over it.