I understand sometimes people lie to avoid hurting someone, but a lot of the time it seems unnecessary. When something really important happens and honesty matters, people still choose to lie instead of just telling the truth.

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So I have had this obsession with truth my whole life. Ultimately big truth but down to truth in general. I feel truth and falsehood are antithecal in more than just the obvious way. Its kinda like kastanzas line from seinfeld about it not being a lie if you believe it. You see it with trump. In order to lie you have to in some ways believe it yourself. The more you lie. The better you lie. The more you have to convince yourself its really true in some way. I personally believe this in all things. If you kill, regardless of reason, you are going to be a killer. Maybe not as much of a killer as someone who premediates on a complete innocent but repetition is going to pile on. Same with stealing and such. Im digressing here a bit but essentially for some people lying becomes so much a part of who they are that they do it for the smallest of reasons some of which only makes sense in their head. Its kinda funny because honest people (like ones obssessed with truth) will get a lotta flak for not just telling a white lie.

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