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🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, these are the listeners. |
0:01.0 | Just me today, someone sent me on discord this article on bustle that is titled 11 times |
0:07.3 | when being honest might not be worth it. |
0:10.1 | So when this article, their thesis is basically that it's okay to lie under certain circumstances. |
0:16.7 | And although I would agree with that, I, as you know, or might know for my previous episodes |
0:21.1 | on this topic, I do think that our culture is becoming more normalized regarding deception |
0:27.1 | and lying. |
0:28.1 | I don't know why that is. |
0:29.1 | I don't know if it's just because I'm getting old and shaking my fist at a cloud. |
0:31.8 | But I find that there's this culture in the United States of accepting lies, of accepting deception |
0:40.0 | and it obviously comes from our leaders and from the media sometimes. |
0:44.5 | And I don't think it's a good trend. |
0:46.3 | I think we should follow our kindergarten teacher's advice and not lie. |
0:52.7 | Honesty is important. |
0:53.9 | I'm not an advocate necessarily of radical honesty, but I am an advocate for reasonable honesty. |
1:00.7 | And I think that this article exhibits this cultural trend towards normalizing lying. |
1:07.0 | So it goes through all these different circumstances in which it's okay to lie. |
1:11.4 | They say, when someone you love has failed, it's okay to lie. |
1:16.0 | When your significant other is rejected from, well, okay, was your significant other rejected |
1:21.4 | from grad school or did your friend get fired from her beloved job? |
1:26.3 | During times like these, psychoanalysts, Dr. Claudia Louise says, they're probably beating |
1:32.3 | themselves up and your honesty will just beat them down at those times. |
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