>Some of us don't. Personally, I don't have the room in my head for it; there far more important thing to try and remember, and trying to keep track of lies would eat up way to much wetware.
You must have a, ah, very narrow conception of what a lie is.
I mean, sure, most of us don't build a complex and self-consistent web of deception where we maintain several different self-consistent models of reality at once.
But that's not the only sort of lie.
The most common substantive lie, I think, is the "tell them what they want to hear" lie.
E.g. "are you working?" alt-tab "Yeah, I'm working"
Or even more commonly, checking personal email, facebook, or a webcomic on work time, and still putting that '8' on your timesheet.
For me? I don't do this on things that matter, and for me, work matters. e.g. if you ask if I'm working, but I'm on HN? I say, "No, I'm screwing off" If I'm having a hard time focusing, say, and I spend time on HN, my timesheet will have very few hours on it.
But, if you ask "how are you?" Quite often, I will say "fine" even if it is a lie. I excuse this lie by explaining it away as a greeting, but really? I don't want to spend time with a non-standard but more truthful answer, most of the time.
But a lot of people give the expected answer, even when the answer is a little bit important. This is the sort of lie that most people tell.
> You must have a, ah, very narrow conception of what a lie is.
I'm quite aware of all the various types of lies people tell.
> The most common substantive lie, I think, is the "tell them what they want to hear" lie.
No, I don't tell that kind of lie either.
> "how are you?" Quite often, I will say "fine" even if it is a lie.
These really annoy me, because it's a waste of time. It conveys no information. Worse, it can encourage burring problems under a facade of being "fine".
Again, I understand that most people habitually tell "little white lies". That doesn't mean everybody does.
You must have a, ah, very narrow conception of what a lie is.
I mean, sure, most of us don't build a complex and self-consistent web of deception where we maintain several different self-consistent models of reality at once.
But that's not the only sort of lie.
The most common substantive lie, I think, is the "tell them what they want to hear" lie.
E.g. "are you working?" alt-tab "Yeah, I'm working"
Or even more commonly, checking personal email, facebook, or a webcomic on work time, and still putting that '8' on your timesheet.
For me? I don't do this on things that matter, and for me, work matters. e.g. if you ask if I'm working, but I'm on HN? I say, "No, I'm screwing off" If I'm having a hard time focusing, say, and I spend time on HN, my timesheet will have very few hours on it.
But, if you ask "how are you?" Quite often, I will say "fine" even if it is a lie. I excuse this lie by explaining it away as a greeting, but really? I don't want to spend time with a non-standard but more truthful answer, most of the time.
But a lot of people give the expected answer, even when the answer is a little bit important. This is the sort of lie that most people tell.