Ten Things You Didn T Know About Lying

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“According to the article Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Lying, People lie at least once every day, and a majority of those that lie thinking that they can escape with it nearly all the time (Annalee Newitz and Joseph Bennington-Castro).” A majority of people lie in many different situations; feel that we should not tell the truth. At times people have protective dishonesties, people feel there are certain human principles that surpass the mistake of lying. Most of the time, whenever people lie, they usually want to escape responsibility for their circumstances that makes it necessary. To increase confidence by means of others for themselves as a person or things that we keep privacy on. To create an identity for ourselves and to save their …show more content…

When people lie they usually feel like they need to fill something they are missing, especially when they lie about personal possessions or lie about a quantity or quality of something that is really a lot less than what it actually is. These types of people boost their own self esteem by “blowing up” the truth into something greater. This helps them feel better about themselves, even though it is a false statement and obviously a lie. These lies don’t last long because especially with our technology and social media connections we easily find out the truth. We are a lot more aware than we were the past hundred years and are way more skeptical and quickly “Google” or look someone up so easily. Even if people lie, we can easily find out the truth about them and this quick, temporary boost usually is squashed. Once a person or group of people lie like this, and it is found out their reputation is lost and they are usually labeled as untrustworthy. Untrustworthiness ruins their self-esteem and confidence about themselves and others in the end, so it is best to stay away from this type of …show more content…

This is also a way people can many times just simply want to run away.An example, lying towards the person you have been in love with for cheating on him/her. This is also a way people can many times just simply want to run away. We do not usually like fight anyone. Most humans do not like pain. We do not like emotional or physical pain. If we lie, it can work out if the other people do not find out. If people do not find out, we are in the clear and are free from the consequences. The reality is that most people use a search when they try to look for information about someone or something on the Internet using the search engine and can easily find out the truth and the

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