It varies mostly on the subject and situation. Outside of with a few people and a few situations I won’t hesitate to lie if it serves my needs more than the truth and I think I can get away with it.
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To other people, sometimes. Not enough to be labled a liar. To myself, all the time.
Maybe once or twice a week.
I lie a ton, but it's dependent on the audience. There are a lot of people (largely work related) I don't feel like sharing details of my life with so I omit them or simplify them to the point of inaccuracy.
With people I actually know and like I lie very little if at all. It's mostly for convenience and ease.
This comment is a lie.
Basically never.
I was convinced that not lying is the way to go about 4 or 5 years ago and I've pretty much stuck with that ever since. I can only remember telling one lie during that time and even that was more of a reflex and totally unecessary (told to a beggar that I didn't have cash even though I did) This doesn't obviously mean that I always tell everything that's on my mind or that I don't omit information. I try an be diplomatic about it but the rule I try to follow is that I don't say things I know not to be true.
I never lie. Not ever.
Kolanaki's nose begins to stretch
Oh man, I never thought there was another person who would never lie about anything, ever, about anything. Especially on the Internet.
I think you have 2 replies here that went to the wrong place - instead of to the person you likely aimed them at, they are to yourself. I just thought that you might like to know!:-)
Do you not reply to yourself, in your head?
Of course it is. It's a need to belong, to fit in, to feel a part of the group. It's written into your genes.