Truth Vs Lying

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Truth or lies? Having to trust people is really difficult, not knowing whether a person is lying or actually telling the truth. How do you know if a person is lying? That’s the bigger question. In this essay I will talk about the many different ways on how to spot a liar or a person who is telling the truth. I have listened to two different Ted talks about how to spot a liar and the future of lying. Many of us have told a lie or two, we all had some kind of guilt in this situation. We all know for a fact that we have said lies to our parents or even our closest friends. Everyone who has been in this situation has fallen for a lie and everyone believes it, not knowing if maybe they are saying the truth or maybe it’s just a lie and you’re just sitting there believing it. Half of us have heard or read a short article about small little things ‘how to spot a liar’, the most …show more content…

Lying is done because the person saying the lie doesn’t want that one person to know or they don’t want to hurt him/her? Who knows however, what I can tell you and can explain to you are many different stages of lying. For example there is the cooperative act. In this case a lie has no power, unless believed. However, it emerges to get some power from an act of belief, if you are told a lie unknowingly you are allowing a cooperative act to take place.We all have or had that one person in our lives who happen to lie to us all the time, whether if they say “hey i’ll call you later” or if your food has happen to mysteriously disappear from the fridge and no one knows where it went. A cooperative act can be done for many reasons. Some of these reasons are so that the person being lied to doesn’t get their feelings hurt, and brightens someone's day. Others are unwilling participants and that can lead to dramatic cause and arguments. One example is when someone is spreading rumors and lies about another person and everyone believes

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