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Mahgister, an anecdote dose not a study make. My wife has a lot of trouble with the truth. She white lies all over the place. She is so prolific at it that I have a hard time telling if she means it or not (compliments). I have no trouble believing her when she has something derogatory to say.
@glupson, can I share the ride? I got pulled over speeding a couple of years ago. The cop wrote me up for reckless driving which in New Hampshire is driving to endanger others or going over 100 mph. I was doing neither. Since reckless driving takes it to a much more serious level I took him to court. He floridly lie about the conditions of the stop. My mouth must have dropped three feet. My lawyer drilled him a new a-- h---
and I won the case. He was a known bad actor in town. He now resides in Alaska. Humans will lie unless it is their own best interest not to.

Mahgister, an anecdote dose not a study make.

My intention was not a study....

Only to gives a personal anecdote that has some meaning attached to it... Perhaps do you know Vernadsky? It is no more an anecdote in my post.... One of the greatest Russian scientist...

For the study of cooperation of organisms in the long run we had plenty of studies; these facts dont eliminate struggle for life, and in human society the battle of all against all, but that relativize the phenomenon pointing to a more deep fact in the long run: cooperation...

Than in human society trust is the ONLY money, thinking otherwise is limited brain power or the results of past traumas or the two....Pick your choices...

History go to the " utopia" of self destruction or the opposite , there is no mid-way between these 2... Why? Because it is cooperation or death.... Simple ....Earth cannot manage 8 billions liars...

Humans will lie unless it is their own best interest not to.

You just say a few second ago that anecdote dont constitue a study.... And my anecdote has 12,000 anecdotes like yours...There are story and story... It is like your opinion of a "tweak" and many consumers satisfied opinions, there is a DIFFERENCE in the weight of anecdotes... Doctor must know this day by day...It is called a prognostic...

Anyway you are old enough to understand that those who always lies like your cop are those and the same  who put themselves in the conditions where lying is a life style...

Average people dont lie at this scale and dont place themselves in the conditions where lies will be necessary and a life style...

If you go to bed with another woman you will be in the obligation to lie, not because you are a liar, because there is no other way.... Simple...





«Thinking is not only addition, it is division too, and few other things»-Groucho Marx

@mahgister,

You and I and many others that contribute to this forum might try to be honest as we can be, but it isn't the way of this world.

The truth in 2021 is now probably only reserved for those interactions between between friends and loved ones.

Certainly seems that no one in the big outside world is too concerned with telling the truth.

Certainly not the tyrannical banks, the litigious lawyers, those puppet politicians, the censorious educational establishment, the apparatchiks in the mainstream media, the farcically propagandist fact checkers, those ravishingly data stealing carnivorous tech giants, the fear-spreading pill-dishing big pharma, and obviously not even your friendly neighborhood hi-fi reviewer.

The likes of the late Peter Aczel are few and far between, alas. 

Any that still remain (Penn Jillette, Derren Brown, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning etc etc) risk being banished and sent to distant concentration camps and gulags to be found on the outer reaches of the cyber universe.

Places where they might find themselves in the company of criminals and the seriously deluded.

Exiled to virtual penal colonies.



"If you go to bed with another woman you will be in the obligation to lie, not because you are a liar, because there is no other way.... Simple..."


Unless you are very lucky and have a very understanding partner..

It's a little risky, but I think personal honesty (ok maybe not quite the confessional Russell Brand type of antics - not everyone is ready for that) can lead to closer more substantial relationships.

You are right on all counts....

But dont forget that all ordinary humans are mostly trustful....

It is only an era where the scum can pilot humanity without the need to hide himself...Then the liars are visible all over the place.... But they dont outnumbered the vast decent majority invisible to any spotlight....

My experience with people is most are trustful....Here for example in these forums, most are trustful.....

Rest assured that i am not too gullible..... 😁

@cd318, Very eloquent. Thank you for that.