Instead, be like Atticus Finch. Successful, but also courageous, kind, responsible.

Why? What's the benefit of doing or becoming that kind of person? It's a lot of hard work for very little return. In a game where the best winners, the most successful people, don't care about the rules, why should a person care about being courageous, kind, responsible.

The Sheens and the Browns desirable in general.

Compare these train-wreck men to average (but boring men) and the train-wrecks are more desirable.

are immensely successful

Disregard Brown/Sheen and look at men similar to them. Everyone knows a shady and aggressive guy, not particularly famous or successful, but who never has trouble with women. Someone who always a girlfriend or a woman to sleep with.

There's actually been studies on this:

• "A gene-based evolutionary explanation for the association between criminal involvement and number of sex partners."

*"Empirical research has revealed a positive relationship between number of sex partners and involvement in antisocial behaviors." Most attempts to explain this association have taken an evolutionary perspective and argued that the same traits (e.g., impulsiveness, shortsightedness, and aggressiveness) that are related to a large number of sex partners are also related to criminal involvement. However, there is also reason to believe that the covariation between sex partners and crime behaviors can be partially explained by a common genetic pathway, where genes that are related to sex partners are also related to antisocial conduct."

• "The results of our analyses reveal two broad findings. First, and in line with prior research, we find that there is a strong positive association between sex partners and antisocial behavior. Second, DAT1 explains variation in both number of sexual partners and in criminal conduct for males. We speak to the implications of our findings."