And I think that actions based on lies, individually or as a national policy, are rather like flying in a fog with totally bad instruments. Maybe you'll luck out, but the odds of disaster are over the top. We as a society have become far too inured to significant lies, and it is literally killing us. Truth can be illusive but lies are de…
And I think that actions based on lies, individually or as a national policy, are rather like flying in a fog with totally bad instruments. Maybe you'll luck out, but the odds of disaster are over the top. We as a society have become far too inured to significant lies, and it is literally killing us. Truth can be illusive but lies are deliberate, and often provable. We need to make lies and liars a far more visible issue and demand verifiable chains of evident in matters that matter, of which there are many. Some kinds of provable lies, especially from a position of entrusted authority, should be a matter of law, others a matter of decisive social rejection.
And I think that actions based on lies, individually or as a national policy, are rather like flying in a fog with totally bad instruments. Maybe you'll luck out, but the odds of disaster are over the top. We as a society have become far too inured to significant lies, and it is literally killing us. Truth can be illusive but lies are deliberate, and often provable. We need to make lies and liars a far more visible issue and demand verifiable chains of evident in matters that matter, of which there are many. Some kinds of provable lies, especially from a position of entrusted authority, should be a matter of law, others a matter of decisive social rejection.