If someone said that they always tell the truth we wouldn’t believe it. We learn how to lie when we are children: we try it, we practice how to use lies…It is true that some people seem to have more tendency to lie, others find it difficult, others lie more and others lie less…but what we actually know is that lying is something that everybody does and there is a liar behind each and every lie. Therefore, lying is something that could be considered normal, although it is wrong, we expect it. That is how lies are told by all kinds of people no matter their age, sex or social stratum. People lie about certain topics, certain circumstances and occasionally to avoid the reality or getting a benefit.
The important question here is, obviously, what makes us lie? Answering this is as complicated as the nature of the human being or classifying lies as white or black.
As Nietzsche said…
What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all...
I guess lying should not be a problem as long as it doesn’t become a habit, otherwise we’d be talking about mythomania. The human being is a liar, that’s a fact, perhaps all we can do is learn to live with it…or learn how to detect lies as it is shown in the following web page. Enjoy! http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies.php
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