Don't know why, but I've often thought about lying.
Not a specific act, but the concept itself. In particular, one question has percolated in my head over the years; What is the most effective kind of lie.
I've come up with many answers, lies that contain a hint of truth, lies that are mostly true, lies that are 100% true, but imply falsehood... (you may notice a pattern, lol)
All good answers, but there's one particular genre of lie that beats them all:
The lie you tell yourself.
Think about it folks, who can lie to you more effectively, more enticingly, who knows what you want to hear to believe something better than you yourself?
Obviously self deception is dangerous in and of itself, but once you've convinced yourself of a falsehood, it becomes easier to convince others, because the sincerity of your words compels others to believe what you say is true.
Something to chew on.
Often I tell "the truth" and see in the face of the recipient that their understanding of it is false. So I lie instead sometimes in a way that makes them understand the truth.
interesting approach.
I stopped thinking of lie vs truth as a black.and white thing when I was like 10.
oh, I wasn't being critical. I'd never thought about it that way is all.
it's something to ponder is what I'm saying.
Sure, I wasn't being defensive about it, just saying, I also have always thought about it.