Telling Lies.

Telling Lies.

During our lecture on lying with integrity, the question was raised; is lying an important part of human nature? In short my answer to this would be most definitely yes! No one ever teaches you to lie, yet we can all do it, as it is a skill that has been acquired for survival. If you think about any conversation you have had this week, some part of it will based around lies. Even something as simple as someones reaction to what they have been told has to be judged as we are suspicious by nature. we gage what people are really thinking and feeling and deem these judgements as more truthful than anything we are told. Would conversation exist at all if everything told was truth? I don't think there would be much substance to conversation at all if it wasn't based upon 'the art and science of lie detection.' All in depth conversations are analytical in style, and what could we analyse if everything we ever heard was out and out truth? Everything is exaggerated, or expanded or glorified, and we converse to find out what we believe to be true. I understand that this all sound very philosophical, but I don't mean to be, it's just that I've never really given lying much thought and when I did, it all seemed very simple to me.

So when does lying become a problem? This website looks at medical problems assosiated with lying, http://www.mental-health-matters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89