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Originally Posted by WishfulThinker66
Also, how do you know for certain that everyone is always lying?
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That's where their incentives lie. They gain far more from lying to me than telling the truth. If I receive the truth, it royally screws them comparatively. The only time I can trust people is if other incentives are at play. For example, the ethics structures around doctors makes acting unethically far worse for doctors than telling me lies, so I can trust them to look after their own interests by being honest.
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Originally Posted by WishfulThinker66
My take on this? It occurs to me that you might want to observe the behaviour of those who seem to be successfully getting along with everyone and learn what you might do differently or learn what in fact you are doing the same that supports your conclusion. Focus extra hard on what non-verbal forms of communication they use. Again, perhaps evaluate your own in comparison.
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I have been doing that exact observation for thirty years. I have duplicated their behavior
exactly and that seems to only anger people
more. Why do you assume I've been lazy these many decades? Maybe those assumptions are the cause of my strife...