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I believe you, I just don’t think it’s realistic for the general population. I am a very honest person (I have a terrible and fierce shame response when I lie)
by afpx 5y ago
I believe you, I just don’t think it’s realistic for the general population.
I am a very honest person (I have a terrible and fierce shame response when I lie). But, I tried to measure it once. I recorded everything that I said for several days with a truth level. I was deceptive more often than I thought I was.
For an example, do you not ever get the question, “What are you thinking about?” when your mind is off daydreaming on something potentially shameful? Maybe I just have a lot of shame. IDK.
- bin_bash 5y agoSam Harris did a great long form essay where he described this concept very well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_(Harris_book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_(Harris_book) He even goes into detail about Santa. EDIT: I think the bit about Santa is only in the audiobook, but he talks about it in this article: https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-high-cost-of-tiny-lies https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-high-cost-of-tiny-lies As far as a question like that, I might not answer it literally truthfully. I’d probably say something like “oh it’s nothing.” Both me and them understand I don’t mean I was literally not thinking about anything, I mean to say I don’t want to talk about it. As long as that’s understood by everyone it’s not false speech.