> Animals don't intend nor even attempt to deceive, unlike humans. I mean, that's just factually wrong. Animals aren't different at all from humans in that re

> Animals don't intend nor even attempt to deceive, unlike humans. I mean, that's just factually wrong. Animals aren't different at all from humans in that regard. Since you don't seem to have much experience with animals, perhaps you might be interested in one tiny example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo#Brood_parasitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo#Brood_parasitism The reproductive strategy of cuckoos is based on deceit, quite fundamentally. And humans generally lie to achieve some goal -- humans don't generally tell major lies for no reason at all. And their minor lies often have an emotional reason behind them -- e.g. to avoid offense or avoid conflict or preserve their ego. All that being said, I'm sorry that you've had such terrible experience with other people. If you haven't already, I would definitely suggest exploring talk therapy. It can help you both to figure out how to deal with people, as well as how to identify and find other people who are emotional supportive and beneficial, rather than people who drain and harm you.