Lying

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Description

As it used to be in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption—even murder and genocide—usually require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie.

In Lying, best-selling creator and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we will radically simplify our lives and fortify society by merely telling the truth in situations where others incessantly lie. He makes a speciality of “white” lies—those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort—for these are the lies that most incessantly tempt us. And they have a tendency to be the only lies that good people tell whilst imagining that they’re being good in the process.


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