09-20-2020, 05:13 PM
(09-20-2020, 01:48 PM)Patrick Wrote: The lying is more indirect than that. For example, if someone else believe they should control a part of my life, something that does not affect them at all and really is only on me. Yet they feel that they have an opinion on what is best for me. I might lie in such instances. The lie prevents me from having to explain myself, yet again. It prevents me from having to defend my freewill using more energy and distortions to basically reach the same goal that the lying achieved.Sometimes it's possible to hold a mirror up to a person so they can objectively see their actions, and sometimes this gets them to reconsider. For instance, "I know you mean well, but have you considered that your saying such things might be intruding too much into my business and not leaving me enough space to make my own decisions?" In this way you can become active (not a passive victim) and preserve some measure of your dignity.
Imagine if the only way to be yourself without lying is to anger someone else. So you believe you only have two choices, either lie or do not be yourself.