Lying, Oh the glorious thing.
It happens every day, everyone lies from the Politian in London to the modern wife in the family; the scary thing about is whither or you can tell someone is lying.
If you can tell someone is lying by using a skill some will consider it as a gift; for an example of this look at a TV show called ‘Lie to Me’ as it focuses on a groups investigations into crimes by the ‘skill’ of the main character Dr Cal Lightman who has the skill of picking out emotions by using a the ‘facial coding system’ and through body language to find out the truth.
Lying was picked out of the clip from Red dwarf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRzNuIvpMUc as the character Lister was teaching Kryten to lie and go against his robotic programming, Lister says in the clip that ‘lying is vital part of our psychological defence system’ and ‘if you can’t lie then you can’t conceal you’re true intensions from other people’ Is this really true? So is being able to lie a good thing? In my view if a lie is told to spare someone’s feelings then it is a good thing as it shows you are thinking about them, I don’t think the world be a better place if everyone told the truth because if everyone did the opposite it would change life for everyone from politics to everyday life.
When it comes to men and women on the other hand I do think that we aren’t different as both men and women can tell lies in a mix of different situations including ‘does my bum look big in this?’ when women wants the man to say ‘No’ But there are those lies that are morally wrong including the constant lies being told when one partner is cheating in the relationship or marriage when the lies get found out it hurts the other people and it takes the trust and makes it hard for the person to trust other people when they get into another relationship again. Isn’t there other lie’s that are wrong and complicate life?
I think the worst thing is being told the lie because you’re being lead into thinking it’s the truth direction because you trust the person and when you find out what it the truth it opens the door into a new light of emotions, it can really ruin someones life if its that bad of a lie.
What would the politics in the country come to when all politicians are exposed as liars? Or hasn’t that already happened?
I agree with Angela as I think it is also a scary as to whether you know people are actually lying or not or if you can tell they are lying. I think if you trust someone you’re not going to expect them to be lying and when or if they do lie to you, you are more hurt because you trusted them. I do not think you can trust anyone 100% people always let you down in some way, form or another! I agree with Angela where she expresses that sometimes you have to lie and sometimes it is okay to lie to protect an individual and also like the fact that she has highlighted lying is a form of deception. I would also like to add those who think they have higher power, authority and money are the biggest liars of all just to get what they want- they are selfish and lie out of greed!
ReplyDeletei agree with your statements. i also believe that an innocent white lie is more for protection rather then deceit and therefore it would be ok to tell a little white lie. however lies that ruin lives for example, infidelity, should not be made in the first place.
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