What About All This Deception and All Those Outright Lies?
The unholy alliance of deception and lies continues to spread with astonishing speed. So many of our posts address one or the other or both. A quick perusal of past posts would provide example upon example of this. But who has time for that? So to keep today's post on point, let's instead focus on the difference between the two - deception and lies - and what unites them. First the simple: Lies. They are intentionally false statements. Sadly, lies are pretty common fare to many of us. We start when we're young. If these go uncorrected or ignored, we may have allowed ourselves the "luxury" of lying about many things. For the worst of us, these can be used to injure others, or at least to advance our own interests. For the rest of us, they can frequently be more a "convenience." We forgot to do something small that our spouse requested we do, and we say we did it - then rush to be sure it's done before they "catch" us in the lie. Frankly, a...
