Glaucon wrote:
What jumped out for me from what you said is the naïve thought that some of us do not lie. Is lying bad? If you your wife asks you if she is getting fat or if your son asks you if you like the his French horn playing in the living room. To say that there is someone out there it the real world that doesn't lie is terribly naïve. For starters, we want people to lie to us and we certainly must be aware that it would be virtually impossible for someone to get elected to major offices without telling us mostly what we want to hear, regardless what is true.
We were quick to absolve Bush of responsibility for lying about the weapons of mass destruction and Lyndon Johnson for lying about the Bay of Tonkin.
How do you define a lie? For me, it is saying something that we know at the time we say it is not true and it is said to manipulate us and it is significant.
I think that if a politician you support tells you something that is not true or turns out not to be true, you probably wouldn't think it was a lie. If a politician you didn't support said exactly the same thing, you would more than likely think it was an impeachable offense.
Let's be real: all humans lie and we often want them to. The important issue is, how important is the lie, For what purpose is the lie, and is the liar a Republican or Democrat?
A note: When I was in kindergarten, just before Christmas, my father sat me on his knee and told me there is no Santa Clause and I couldn't tell anyone else because they had been told something that wasn't true. I felt on top of the world because I knew the t***h and my other kindergarteners were being lied to and didn't know it.
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You forgot to mention Reagan lying about Iran Contra and trading arms for hostages illeagly . Vetoing the anti apartheid sanctions on South Africa, Created the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. He promised to cut down the size of gubmint but tripled the national debt