Lie To Me, Baby The Necessity Of Deceit Analysis

Lie to Me, Baby: The Necessity of Deceit

Love is often the pivotal influence over people and their decisions, so much that the phrase ‘‘people do crazy things, when they're in love’’ has been immortalized by The Walt Disney Company as a staple of romance. Similarly, the drive hidden behind that emotion extends to most relationships that fall within human capacity. The lengths a parent will go for their child or the loyalty a friend has for another being some poignant examples of the emotion in its platonic forms. To maintain healthy bonds, people must put forth effort and be receptive towards compromise. We can accept that lying is an integral part of our relations, therefore so intrinsic to our lives that it is unavoidable.

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Nonetheless, that love will not last a long time if people go around pointing those flaws out. Truth can often be too harsh; there is a technique called Radical Honesty invented by Dr. Brad Blanton. It consists of saying the truth regardless of propriety or social norms. It is described by many as offensive and even humiliating. This leads us to defining what is right and what is correct; right depends on morals and convictions whilst correct is more of a fact. When in the topic of relationships, telling the truth would be the right thing to do, but not the correct thing to do. People can try to give partial answers or somehow manipulate their words to ignore the bad, but as Captain Jean-Luc Picard once said “You told the truth up to a point. But a lie of omission is still a lie.” The truth will bring problems since there are always questions better left unanswered, yet with someone who awaits the answers and will not accept refusal. The survival of the relationship lies within the answer, and most would like to keep it