Discussing Lies and Guilts


How does people lie?
Is the question more on the process of lying,
more on the process of the reason that shapes the lies
or more on the guilts after lying that is so immense that makes lying becomes so unacceptable or unbearable for human?

Well I think those questions worth to explore.

First the process of lying
Hmmm....
Perhaps lying is the process of altering the fact
Next, what is fact?
I can comfortably state that fact is more on perception
I know this might result in a huge debate on fact and perception
Just like, if it is only perception, how can I explain that we are living in earth, that earth has gravity, etc etc
I wont refute that, but just bare with me
Sometimes humans have shared perception about a thing, perhaps from the process of formal learning or everyday cultural learning that sips deeply into our subconscious.... Then....
in other cases, humans might also have differing perceptions on almost everything.

Ok, about lying
So, safely, it can be said that as humans, fact is strongly based and related with our perception (I didn't refute what we identified as facts here)
As a consequence, altering the fact is also somehow altering or more or less on distorting our perception about things, issues, ideas, events, etc in our world

Just like ff we perceive a thing as  monkey but then we say that it is a donkey
it is easier when it is remotely unrelated
But what if we perceive something as monkey but we don't have the chance to see the monkey clearly and then we firmly describe it as a monkey? is it lying?
Well it's not based on what we really see, I kind of monkey, might be monkey, might not be a monkey at all...
It might be... I'll let you decide... hehehe

The second, reasons that shapes the lies...

I can think of millions of reasons why people have to lie

All of them perhaps can be attributed to survival instinct

A way to keep ourselves alive (physically and mentally), keeping our wellbeing, etc etc

And people act differently to different threat to survival, 

Threat is perhaps pretty much both universal and personal in that sense

Then, the guilts as a consequence come after that

I guess it's pretty clear where does the guilt come from

It is from our mental image of our perception that knocking on our conscious for us to deal with the discrepancies of what we perceive and what we admit we perceive

The guilt itself can provoke us to react in alleviating our guilts

or...alleviating the discrepancies

So, I guess we know now why when people lie, most of the time they don't want to be acknowledged as lying

Since, it can somehow advanced their discrepancies

Making them seeing the lies can make the discrepancies become even more obvious (which is subconsciously it is actually obvious but the conscious mind suppressed it)

And... the discrepancy will ask for consolidation

Break free the suppressed subconscious issue!

I guess this is human nature, people can not have two competing perceptions of the same object on the same head

Humans do not even have the ability to keep two competing perceptions in a house (remember those quarrels over TV with your parents, spouse or mates?)

So the guilts can come and haunt human....creepy

Something that we can learn from this human nature,

Do not lie, unless.... (fill that yourselves)

Good Luck with lying... !!!

ps. a human who lies a lot and is still in mentally healthy condition might have developed a superior perception consolidation system... "superhuman" :)