Lying is Self-Deception
There are plenty of circumstances in which humans seem to convince themselves of being excused from taking a certain course of action when, to the eyes of their peers, they actually are not. A good part of those scenarios may involve that phenomenon called self-deception. Lance Armstrong may have just provided one of the starkest cases of self-deception we can offer. Yet, who is to say that you are self-deceiving yourself?
By wanting to judge the morality of lying, we may have led ourselves into one of the most difficult skeptical lands to traverse.
Lying has been seen as a threat to civil society by authors such as Kant. A society that tolerates lies – the argument goes – is a society in which trust is undermined and, with it, the sense of collectivity.
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Saturday, February 1st 2020 at 12:15AM
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