There is no worse coward than the one who constantly uses the truth halfway, because whoever combines truth with the lie sooner or later shows the complete lie, because the deceptions camouflaged by good manners are harmful and exhausting, and tend to emerge, as well as whole lies. .
Unamuno said in her texts that there is no good fool, that everyone, in her own way, knows how to conspire and put into practice effective tricks to catch us off guard, but if there is something that exists excessively in our society, it is not exactly the fools or the naive. Incomplete lying or half-truth is the most familiar strategy we see in almost all of our contexts, mainly in the areas of politics.
- Using decapitated truths.
- Or lies with many short legs.
- Gives those who use them the feeling that they are doing nothing wrong.
- That they are free from the responsibility they have with each other.
- It seems that the pity for not fulfilling his responsibilities; is like someone telling us?I love you very much.
- But I need time?o “I really appreciate the way you work and we appreciate all your efforts.
- But we have to close your contract for a few months.
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Truth, although it hurts, is something that we all prefer and sometimes need, is the only way to move forward and join forces to implement the right psychological strategies to turn the page, setting aside the lack of certainty and, above all, this emotional instability that implies not knowing, unmasking false illusions.
Interestingly, the subject of lying and his psychological analysis is quite recent, Freud did not address the subject much, because until then it was an aspect that remained in the hands of ethics and even theology and its relationship to morality. , social psychologists began to take an interest and study in depth the subject of deception and all the phenomenology associated with it, to confirm what Nietzsche himself said in his time: “Is lying a condition of life?”
We know that this can seem heartbreaking, because although we learn from a young age the need to always tell the truth, little by little, from the age of four, we realize that sometimes resorting to lying means getting certain benefits. what is clear at a very early stage is that a direct, odorless lie is almost never profitable in the long run.
On the other hand, as Professor Robert Feldman of the University of Massachusetts School of Psychology has shown us, many of our most common conversations are filled with these same incomplete truths; however, 98% of them are harmless, non-harmful and even functional. (like telling a person we don’t have much confidence with that “we’re fine, except for this and that,” when we’re actually going through a complicated time. )
However, the remaining 2% show the half-camouflaged truth, a perverse strategy where the error of half-truth provokes a lie expressed by default. In addition, the person intends to emerge unscathed from the idea that since his lie is not complete, there is no offense.
It is possible that many of us may have fed ourselves for some time on these half-truths, which are ultimately complete lies; they may also have presented us with pious lies or even repeated the same lie more than once, hoping that we would assume it was true. However, sooner or later, this truth appears as a cork floating in the water.
There are several explanations: that everything is relative or that “nobody can always tell the truth. ” However, on top of all this, what is advisable to practice and, in turn, demand of others is the so-called HONESTY. Although sincerity and frankness are associated with the absolute obligation not to fall into lies, honesty maintains a much more intimate, useful and effective relationship with oneself and with others.
We talk above all about respect, integrity, being authentic, consequential and never resorting to those tricks where cowardice is distilled from hidden aggression, so to conclude we must understand that there is no lie more harmful than camouflaged truth that there is nothing better than honesty to live in harmony and respect. A dimension that, in turn, needs another undisputed pillar: responsibility.