Sam Harris - Lying
Sam Harris - Lying As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and…
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Sam Harris - Lying
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies.
He focuses on "white" lies--those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort--for these are the lies that most often tempt us. In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process.