This is ridiculous. A “truth twister”? This isn’t hypocrisy. This is lying. To yourself, mostly. Unless you live in a cave, you tell white lies every day. Ever say Good Afternoon when you didn’t feel like it?
This sort of moral highhorsing gets us nowhere. Stop it, please.
More than one of my doctors has patient notes saying not to ask me “How are you doing?” which I asked them not to do, because I dislike giving the standard nonanswer “Fine”, because sometimes I’m not actually fine.
I stopped lying, to the best of my ability, years ago. I’ve found, though, that as my lying skills have degraded, I have also partially lost the ability to consider my words before I speak and I have lost the knack for social pablum (although I may never have had that to begin with; tough to say).
When someone asks me how I am, I always answer “same as always.” I would like to say that I do it so that I don’t need to commit to a position with which I disagree, but the truth is that the words come out before I can figure out the normal, polite response.
Overall, I think that lying is a very valuable skill. Maybe it is like self-defense; something that you hope that you don’t have to use, but is always good to have available.
This is ridiculous. A “truth twister”? This isn’t hypocrisy. This is lying. To yourself, mostly.
I think I’m similar to CronoDAS in being a “truth twister”, but I don’t know the exact details of how much truth (s)he is willing to twist, so I’m not sure how similar we are.
Unless you live in a cave, you tell white lies every day. Ever say Good Afternoon when you didn’t feel like it?
I’d like to make a point here. When someone says “Good morning” to you and you reply “Good morning” back to them, the information you are communicating is that you are greeting them, not that you actually think this morning is a good morning or anything like that. So in this sense, I wouldn’t consider it a lie to say “Good morning” even if though the morning were particularly bad.
As I understand it, ‘Good morning!’ is short for ‘I wish you a good morning.’, not ‘I’m having a good morning.’. It’s not a lie if you’re in a bad mood, but it may be a lie if you say it to somebody that you dislike.
This is ridiculous. A “truth twister”? This isn’t hypocrisy. This is lying. To yourself, mostly. Unless you live in a cave, you tell white lies every day. Ever say Good Afternoon when you didn’t feel like it?
This sort of moral highhorsing gets us nowhere. Stop it, please.
More than one of my doctors has patient notes saying not to ask me “How are you doing?” which I asked them not to do, because I dislike giving the standard nonanswer “Fine”, because sometimes I’m not actually fine.
Crono, stay on that moral high horse!
I stopped lying, to the best of my ability, years ago. I’ve found, though, that as my lying skills have degraded, I have also partially lost the ability to consider my words before I speak and I have lost the knack for social pablum (although I may never have had that to begin with; tough to say).
When someone asks me how I am, I always answer “same as always.” I would like to say that I do it so that I don’t need to commit to a position with which I disagree, but the truth is that the words come out before I can figure out the normal, polite response.
Overall, I think that lying is a very valuable skill. Maybe it is like self-defense; something that you hope that you don’t have to use, but is always good to have available.
Saying you’re “Fine” to a doctor, when you are not, would be a little foolish, would it not? As opposed to your standard workaday white lies.
I think I’m similar to CronoDAS in being a “truth twister”, but I don’t know the exact details of how much truth (s)he is willing to twist, so I’m not sure how similar we are.
I’d like to make a point here. When someone says “Good morning” to you and you reply “Good morning” back to them, the information you are communicating is that you are greeting them, not that you actually think this morning is a good morning or anything like that. So in this sense, I wouldn’t consider it a lie to say “Good morning” even if though the morning were particularly bad.
As I understand it, ‘Good morning!’ is short for ‘I wish you a good morning.’, not ‘I’m having a good morning.’. It’s not a lie if you’re in a bad mood, but it may be a lie if you say it to somebody that you dislike.
“This isn’t hypocrisy. This is lying.”
Lying is making a false statement with the intent to deceive. Refusing to make a statement isn’t lying unless silence is itself a statement.
Deception, now, is a different matter. All of the things CronoDAS mentioned are certainly deceptive, but they’re not lying.
Okay.