there can be no benefit from compromising truth. we make thousands of decisions each day, and we generally want those decisions to be informed. informed means we take information from our senses, from our memories, and from our ability to reason, and that influences the decision we make. for instance, when you make the decision to eat eggs for breakfast instead of drano, that is informed by your knowledge that eggs are nutritious, and that drano is poisonous. substitute the truth for a lie, and you might consume the drano instead and either die or have a very miserable trip to the hospital. when people lie, it is because they want to influence people's decisions to be contrary to their own best interests. they cannot change the person's values, so they change the information they are operating on. what does this tell us about someone who wants us to not value the truth at all?
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