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Why do we LIE?

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By Jen PooPublished 2 years ago 3 min read

The fact that they weren't lying as much as they may have been is remarkable. They purposefully told lies. Big enough to attract further funding, they thought, but not so big as to raise suspicion. It's untrue to think that people can be divided into two groups based on whether they lie or not—that is, that lying is abnormal and immoral. Everyone is being deceitful as if you're on the internet. People lie all the time. But honestly assess yourself. Have you recently lied to anyone? When someone asked how you were doing, did you tell them the whole truth? "Oh great!" Besides, these are just little lies.

There are many bigger and worse lies in the world. Lies that have detrimental effects. Most of us consider ourselves to be generally decent, honest people. So why do we behave in this manner? If humans are supposed to be the most intelligent species on Earth, the most socially evolved organism known to science, then why are we unable to utter the whole truth and nothing but the truth? This is why we lie. Lie, falsehood, fabrication, concoction, fabrication, exaggeration, hogwash, fraud, deception, and cheating. So what exactly is a lie?

It is good to begin with definitions. "Someone acting to create a false belief in their victim" despite being the victim themselves. You may lie to yourself; after all, we all do. It's very weird; it suggests that information is actually being withheld by one section of the brain from another. You can come across the following lies: We are capable of saying things that are not true. On the other hand, we can also lie by completely changing the truth or by omitting or exaggerating it. We are capable of lying in our actions. or actions we decide not to take. These are all untruths. Everyone behaves in this manner. We also don't deserve this. The phrase "only in the context of evolution does anything in biology make sense" may be familiar to you. That is definitely correct. We have grown into the individuals and actions that we are today. And the notion that lying could be advantageous is a little evil. Nature not only protected it but also improved our capacity to do it because it was so advantageous.

What is the frequency of lying among people? 25% of college students lie to their closest friends, 50% to acquaintances, and in almost 80% of conversations with complete strangers, according to studies. They also lied to their mothers in half of the calls they made home. Lying and deceit are not unique to humans. Diverse signals are used by living things to communicate with one another. molecules and chemicals, motions, patterns, hues, and noises. They can all be dishonest, too. The precise moment of our species' history is uncertain, but scientists agree that the emergence of spoken language contributed significantly to our capacity for deception. Moreover, unlike most other animals, we are able to direct most of our lies toward other members of our own species since we are able to communicate. How do we interpret this? How will we explain away all of this deception? Let's think about this for a minute. What do we want to gain from the social interactions we have on a daily basis? Maybe just to be nice, maybe to make our voices heard, maybe to present a particular picture of ourselves, maybe to encourage others and strengthen our relationships with each other. The most frequent lies we tell are white lies.

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