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Great link. I also read Sam Harris's Kindle Single, Lying, earlier this year and enjoyed that as well.
by RexRollman 15y ago
Great link. I also read Sam Harris's Kindle Single, Lying, earlier this year and enjoyed that as well.
- fingerprinter 15y agoI also read Lying and I thought it was really, really vapid. I would have liked Harris to go into more social techniques that allowed him to be honest without offending. Instead of that, which would have been very useful, Harris simply parroted the old "lying doesn't solve problems..." Honestly, Lying seems like something he pumped out in a short weekend because he hadn't released anything in a while. Very disappointed.
- RexRollman 15y agoPersonally, I like it as it was. Had it been a guide, it probably would have been much longer.
- billswift 15y agoIf it was worth taking seriously it also would have been much longer. Go read Sissela Bok's Lying: Moral choice in Public and Private Life then try taking Harris seriously.
- RexRollman 15y agoThanks. I'll look into it.
- jpd 15y agoYou may also like Mark Twain's "On the Decay of the Art of Lying". link: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2572 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2572