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Has anyone else noticed that lying has just become commonplace nowadays? People will just lie to make their lives easier. In one day, I counted and was given
by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Has anyone else noticed that lying has just become commonplace nowadays?
People will just lie to make their lives easier.
In one day, I counted and was given like 3 lies from people in businesses. I mean they MAY have not know they were lying but these are relatively smart people who were making simple lies that just about anyone would know were lies.
And why they were lying was understandable, they just didn't want to discuss things with the customer, but still this idea of lying to make life easier doesn't sit well with me.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoThe world's so weird nowadays, politicians just state blatantly false things and even repeat them when challenged, and they get away with it.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoYep. I was reading about a post-truth era and it feels like we're in some form of that presently. Even objective scientific facts and statistics are completely disregarded.
- lgessler 5y agoWhy do you think the present is particularly bad in this regard?
- nickthemagicman 5y agoObeservation sfrom my lifetime so it's purely subjective observation. From my observation historically, people would at least try to weasel around the truth. Now they just lie!
- recursive 5y agoBy the common definition, if you don't know you're lying, then you're not lying. It doesn't generally extend to mistakes.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoTrue! That's an easy way to get away with lying just feign ignorance. No one can prove otherwise. The consequences for being a dumbass are way less than the consequences for outright lying. Since there's not way to prove one way or another it comes down to PRINCIPLES instilled in people to value the truth, principles from my limited observations that seem to be viewed as less important nowadays. The truth is an obstacle to forcing ones values on the world. Hence, why it seems to me like we're entering a 'post-truth society'. Interesting side note however, according to the legal system, ignorance of the law is not an acceptable way out of crime, because the law, by necessity, places as high a value as possible on finding the truth.