Griffin (vcgriffin)'s status on Monday, 08-Jun-15 21:11:30 UTC
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@awlditzy [for...”“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.” ....] and be boxed into a loveless marriage. Nor do you want others to fake their reality for you. Though I have no idea how this scales to a full society.
I see it more as a case for personal responsibility, albit one that I can use to beat myself up with like some ponies do with fault analysis [HPMOR], as in If I am stuck somewhere it is my fault that I am not prepared for it, or that I am the cause of my own unhappiness and I shouldn't expect others to digg me out.
