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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Martyn Lies sure hates liars.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/17/iles-is-an-anagram-for-lies/
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- One of the biggest changes | have seen over the course of my not-that- long life is the normalisation of lying. Yes, at the level of worldview and culture . .. “woke” is effectively an “objective truth is evil” belief system. Politics is a festival of lies to the point of being a depressing joke. The media lied so much they’re dying. But also at the level of relationships. People actively deceive each other, deny their behaviour, say whatever is expedient to the moment, or hide their true agenda, simply as a way of life. And when you catch them out, they kick you out of their life. It’s become shockingly normal. Effortless, brazen, easy liars, and deceivers are multiplying. People who have become so calloused in their own self-interest and self-serving that they say whatever it takes. I have sat in rooms where apparently reputable people tell outright lies to get what they want or avoid scrutiny. It’s so shocking that your first assumption is to imagine that you must be mistaken. Are you a Christian? Then you tell the truth. Ruthlessly. Consistently. Without fail. Without fear. Every time. Because truth is good, no matter what. .. even when we feel like it will cost us. The cost will ultimately be for good. The closest you will ever come to a lie is remaining silent in those exceptional situations where wisdom demands it. (remote)
