I've never been a chick to use absolutes, to think that honesty is something that is always expected is juvenile. People that speak their minds all the time are always labeled as the jerks. Just think about it, if someone told you exactly what they were thinking whenever you asked all the time, half of the time they would say something you wouldn't want to hear. People don't always want the truth. They want to hear that they're perfect, it feeds their ego. No one wants to really sit down and talk about their flaws.
I believe that people have moral complexes that keep them from telling the truth. I wonder do other species have the communication issues that we humans have? When Rover comes home late, is his wife waiting at the doggy door asking him where he's been and why there's kibbles n bits on his breath when they only have Iambs?
The truth is relative to the situation I think. Lies never hurt anyone, it's when lies come to the surface that people get hurt. Think about it, if you tell your b/f you've only been with 3 men, when you've really been with 7 men and the topic never comes up again... no harm done. I have more faith in people than I should. I like to think that decent people won't lie to you about something that's important, but I'm usually wrong. I guess I have a naiveity because the truth is, there's a 50/50 chance that what you're hearing out of someone's mouth is a lie. Now you can either be suspect of everything that someone says and live your life in a paranoid delirium. Or you can accept that people are human, if you've lied before, odds are that person has lied before and probably will lie to you at one point and you to them.
Lying is a vicious, but necessary circle. Parents lie, lovers lie, politicians lie, teachers lie, the damage done is only relative to the situation. Just my thoughts, what do you guys think?
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Actions always speak louder than words...go off of what someone does before what they say.
ReplyDeleteThat's just me!