Lie? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Posted on 07/14/2009 7:30:59 AM PDT by decimon
A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation.
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"Being honest is not so much a matter of exercising willpower as it is being disposed to behave honestly in a more effortless kind of way," says Greene. "This may not be true for all situations, but it seems to be true for at least this situation."
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What they seem to miss is that the reason the subjects are disposed to being honest, is that they settled the “will” issue long ago.
An honest person doesn’t struggle with it, because they’ve long since decided that honesty is the best policy.
A dishonest person hasn’t reached that state yet, so they struggle with options.
Meanwhile politicians only struggle is about which lie they will tell.
Say for example: A president that has already decided against the merits of showing his birth certificate to prove his elligibility, doesn't have to think about it in subsequent decisions. He simply knows to automatically send lawyers to try to shut down a lawsuit instead of sending his proof of elligibility.
Say for example: A president that has already decided against the merits of showing his birth certificate to prove his elligibility, doesn't have to think about it in subsequent decisions. He simply knows to automatically send lawyers to try to shut down a lawsuit instead of sending his proof of elligibility.
LOL, yep, see post 4
If honesty is the best policy it would seem by process of elimination dishonesty is the second best policy.
I much agree. But the old saying, "You can't be honest with a dishonest man.", holds true.
Ever work customer service? Odds are you can't trust either your bosses or your customers.
Give me a break! Honest people are comfortable with the truth because they don’t have to fumble for the most consistent lie and they’ve made it a life habit. You will likely find the same on the opposite side of the spectrum... dishonest people are comfortable with lying.
Like we need another lecture from Harvard....
Summers time and the lying is easy...
Oscar Wilde
True, but the second best policy may well be deemed an unacceptable policy.
There may be other policy options, such as refusing to provide information. Honesty "Doesn't require that you share everything with everybody." It's not dishonest to say, "I'm not going to answer that."
My father was one of the most noble human beings I have ever known. He was a man of the most sterling integrity, profoundly honorable and honest, a heroic patriot in his military career and self-sacrificing in his personal life. I never knew him to tell a lie.
Yet he told me that the reason he was so honest is that in every single exchange he had he was tempted to lie, to take the easy way out. He had to constantly guard his tongue and monitor his words so he would say what was accurate, rather than embroidered, exaggerated, evasive, or completely untrue. For his whole life.
The result was that he was unfailingly honest, to the very penny, in all of his public and private dealings and in all his speech. Yet by the standard of these researchers, he was not honest because it wasn’t easy or natural.
Aren't these the same people who thought abortion could be done up until the child was a year old? In short - murder?
Harvard does the best "justification" work for liberal beliefs of any University. Bet they didn't say anything negative about the Duke University gay man who tried to sell his black adopted son for white men to rape. Nope. Crickets.
My take is that you are what you do. Seems to me that your father was an honest man.
When I would see Dubya answering questions it would seem to me that he was measuring his words so to avoid lying. I thought him often evasive so to avoid lying. If I'm right then was he being honest or not?
Harvard does the best "justification" work for liberal beliefs of any University. Bet they didn't say anything negative about the Duke University gay man who tried to sell his black adopted son for white men to rape. Nope. Crickets.
There's no they there. To attribute to these people all that to you is 'Harvard' is the same as attributing to you all that is 'Free Republic.'
"I can't think of any response right now. Where's my teleprompter?"
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