1/25/2021

Why Do People Tell Lies?

 1984 George Orwell said...Why Do People Tell Lies?

There are liars everywhere, in every country, in every profession, in every walk of life, in the whole wide world and in the cyberspace.

Liars can be grouped into various categories depending on their motives. However, the main categories are:

1. White Liars - they tell white lies.

2. Black Liars - they tell dark, secretive, deceptive lies.

3. Evil liars - they plant poison into the minds of innocent common folks on a regular basis, day in, day out, relentlessly, persistently, continuously, using every means of communication and dissemination available to reach deep into the psyche of the unsuspecting common folks, to make sure that they are mesmerised into believing the lies and turn them into unshakeable truth, and into personal conviction.

Among these three groups of liars, the most common and outstanding ones come from the professions of businessmen, lawyers, magicians, politicians and religious preachers.

Examples of white liars are magicians and circus clowns.

Examples of black liars can be found in businesses and products advertisers, sales personnel, journalists and news editors, unethical lawyers, politically-motivated judges, all sorts of smart accounting and book-keeping service-providers and confidence-tricksters.

Examples of the evil liars are the religious crusaders and evangelicals, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump.

There are numerous reasons why people tell lies. The most common reason are greed and gain.

Throughout the history of man, greed and gain have been the most destructive motivators. They had motivated countless people to do unimaginable things beyond logic, towards destruction of self and others, towards heinous crimes and towards unfathomable cruelty and colossal sufferings.

Greed and gain drive honest men to become dishonest politicians and dictators. They drive good national leaders to become cruel torturers and mass murderers. They also drive upright judges to give absurd reasons to support their politically-motivated judgements. And they make holy priests become holely priests (conscience full of holes).

In conclusion, whether it is white, black or evil, lies are lies. They do harm to others and yourself. They punch a hole and make a mark in your character. You have to live with it and carry the burden of guilt throughout the rest of your life, until your dying day and beyond, to the next generation.

Remedy: Repent, confess and promise not to tell lies again, and really do it.


1984 George Orwell.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Which PAP politicians never tell lies in his adulthood, KEE CHIU! Raise up your hands.

I think the Paper General Chan Kee Chiu is the only one who never tell lies in his entire cotton come from sheep life.

Am I right or wrong? What do you think?

Anonymous said...

'Liar liar pants on fire' and yet lying continues.

I think it is also an inborn trait like greed. that even newborn babies are born with, howling for milk. We do not call newborn babies greedy, do we? Some can control greed and the propensity to lie and gamble, but not everyone can do that.

It takes all kinds of people to make the world!

Anonymous said...

Agreed even most adult guys also howling for milk if given a chance. It's part of nature kar

A-Non-Yes-Mouse said...

Humans are born with selfishness but not greed.

The moment one sperm enters the egg, it is sealed from the outside. No other sperms can enter the same egg any more. Only in rare occasions of identical twins that two sperms can occupy the same egg. This selfishness is to protect itself from harm.

The new born babies know immediately how to cry for food when hungry. This is embedded inside the DNA. But this is not greed.

Greed is wanting more and more even if the baby is fulled. Greed is cultivated over time, from about 3 years old onwards. It depends on the values imparted by the parents or care-givers. Greed can be controlled and subdued.

However, the greed for sex, money and power is very difficult to control. Even highly educated people failed to control their greed for sex, money or power.

Many top national leaders fell victim to their own greed for power. They never fail to stay on the pinnacle of power for longer and longer, until they were toppled or dead. There are so many examples around the world, at home and abroad.

Anonymous said...

Cotton comes from sheep is not a white lie but a cock-up. This guy always cock-up because he tries to be cocky all the time, and tries to be too smart until becomes careless.

How can address the Speaker of the House as Madam President instead of Madam Speaker. Not that it was the first time he spoke in Parliament.

Some more repeated it a second time and can still showed that cynical smile, after the second careless mistake. Could also be deliberately acted in order to show off his cockiness.

Anonymous said...

HDB is asset-enhancement and not a liability that will dwindle to zero value at end of lease period, (worse than a car at the expiry of its COE, which can at least get back $50 for its scrap metal) is a very ingenious lie.

Recycled waste water is called Newater is an obvious lie, even a five year old can detect.

Inside 200 metres is not within 200 metres is an absurdity lie.

Promised to return CPF savings in full at age 55 years old but then amend the laws and regulations to break this promise is a cunning lie.

Promised to achieve Swiss Standards of Living in order to get votes but conveniently forgotten about it is deceptive lie.

Promised TraceTogether App's data collected to be used for Covid-19 tracking only and then come out with the revelation that the Police can actually use the data because of the Criminal Procedure Codes, is a skilful lie.

Lies, lies after lies. Deception, deception and more deception. Yet still want to uphold integrity by suing people for defamation? What is the fame that has been defamed, really?


Anonymous said...

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer and ex-governor of New York City, the audacious and Incorrigible liar, is going to pay a huge price for telling lies after lies.

Dominion Voting Systems has sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation after he pushed the "Big Lie" about election fraud on his podcast and TV appearances.

Dominion is seeking more than $1.3 billion in damages.

The lawsuit notes that while Giuliani spread falsehoods about Dominion being owned by Venezuelan communists and corrupting the election, he did not make those claims in lawsuits he pushed on behalf of Trump.

This is the second defamation lawsuit Dominion has filed in recent weeks seeking to recoup its losses following the Trump post-election disinformation campaign.

The vote auditing company also sued lawyer Sidney Powell, who pushed similar claims alongside Giuliani.

The next chap to be sued will be Donald Trump and a few of the Republican senators.

SSO said...

Moderna is using corrupt scientist to give a false impression that Moderna vaccine is able to counter the new strains of Coronavirus.

This is one type of professional liars. They make use of words that are ambiguous so that they can be right either way. Fxxkung cunning bastards without conscience and ethical codes.

Similar to the three types of liars, there are three types of scientists - white lies scientists, black lies scientists and evil lies scientists. These vaccine experts who double talked are the Evil Lying Scientists. They kill innocent people without taking responsibility.

SSO said...

A Good Example Of "Scientifized" Double-Talks That Give Positive Impression At Face Value

25 Jan 2021

Moderna has said it believes its COVID-19 vaccine is effective against new variants of the coronavirus, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the strain discovered in South Africa after tests showed the antibody response could be reduced.

The United States-based biotech company said in a press release on Monday that the move was out of “an abundance of caution” after preliminary lab tests suggested its shot produced a weaker immune response to that variant.

“We are encouraged by these new data, which reinforce our confidence that the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine should be protective against these newly detected variants,” said Stephane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO.

“Out of an abundance of caution and leveraging the flexibility of our mRNA platform, we are advancing an emerging variant booster candidate against the variant first identified in the Republic of South Africa into the clinic to determine if it will be more effective to boost titers against this and potentially future variants.”

Study Findings

Vaccine manufacturers have been testing their shots against the mutated strains including two that first emerged in the United Kingdom and South Africa. To study the effect of the existing vaccine, called mRNA-1273, Moderna took blood samples from eight people who had received two doses of the vaccine and two primates that had also been immunised.

For the B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in the UK, there was no impact on the level of neutralising antibodies – which bind to the virus and prevent it from invading human cells – that were produced by the shots.

But for the South African variant, B.1.351, there was a sixfold reduction in the neutralising antibody level.

Even so, it remained above the quantity that was shown to be protective in earlier tests on primates that were infected on purpose.

The company, which carried out the studies with the National Institutes of Health, has submitted the study to a preprint server so it can be analysed by the wider scientific community.

No ‘Escape’

Dr Ali Fattom, senior vice president of vaccines research at BlueWillow Biologics and an adjunct associate research professor at the University of Michigan, told Al Jazeera that the study appeared to show the virus variants would not “escape” the vaccines that are currently being rolled out.

“We are not losing the protective efficacy of the vaccine because of these variants. They are variable in their level of protection, but still we are protected against them, so there is no issue with regards to ‘vaccine escape’ in this case,” he said.

“It means that you may need a stronger immune response to tackle this virus, but still the virus is susceptible to the immune response. There is some kind of resistance. The efficacy might not be 90 percent, it could be going down to 70 percent,” he continued.

Dr Fattom noted that the variants would be covered by other vaccines that produce a similar immune response as the Moderna shot.

“The immune response that the Moderna vaccine induces is similar to other vaccines. Therefore any good news from one place is good news for the others,” he said.

Dr Paul Offit, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel, said that he was only mildly concerned that the vaccine would not be protective against the variants, the news agency Reuters reported.

“It is a little worrisome that you see a lesser neutralising antibody response, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are unprotected,” he said, noting that even these lower levels may still be enough to protect against serious infections.

“The goal of this vaccine is to keep you out of the hospital and to keep you out of the morgue. If you get asymptomatic infection or mildly symptomatic infection that is not a burden to the healthcare system,” Offit said.

SOURCE : AL JAZEERA

SSO said...

One party system or two party system, or multiple party system, it is for the PEOPLE to decide.

To only have Chinese as Prime Minister or to have a Non-Chinese Prime Minister, it is also for the PEOPLE to decide.

Puthumayam, Puthusamy or Puthucherry of course would like to support the idea of a Non-Chinese, preferably an Indian who has not done National Service. But the Puthus dared not say it out. So they conveniently "elak" to the PEOPLE.

Of course again, what the Puthus meant for the word PEOPLE was the word PEOPLE in the Action Party.

We all know that the PEOPLE cannot decide on who should be the Prime Minister. It is the political party that has been elected to form the government that choose the Prime Minister. And he is to be the Secretary General of the party.

Until the PAP has a Non-Chinese as its Secretary General, as far as the PAP is concerned, there will not be a Non-Chinese Prime Minister.

If the PEOPLE really want to have a Non-Chinese Prime Minister, then they should cast their votes to the Workers' Party to let the Workers' Party form the government. But we also know that this is not going to happen in the next ten years.

So all these talks about the People to decide is a lot of bullshit.

Can we call this another kind of lies? Bullshit lies?

Anonymous said...

Nice thought. India PM, Indian President, Indian Chief Justice, Indian Minister of Law and Home Affairs, Indian Foreign Minister.....Indian Police Chief, Indian Army Chief.....Indian Union Chief, Indian DBS CEO....