Analysis Of Dis Honesty: The Truth About Lies

To my understanding of the documentary (Dis) Honesty- The Truth about Lies, the reason why humans go from a “white lie” to outright dishonesty is simply because we often become to content with throwing around little “white lies.” Many times, we feel like we’ve already gotten this far in telling a little white lie that we must lie more in order to go along with what was said earlier, thus making us go from white lies to outright dishonesty. Most of the time, people know that lying is wrong, but they still do it because they either want it to be true, or they think they won’t get caught. Another reason, which was mentioned in the film, for why we tend to go from little lies to is because our brains adapt to it the more that we lie. As mentioned in the movie, “ If we’re pretty much honest people and we haven’t lied, and now we’re telling a lie, the brain is coding this as a really big difference relative to our baseline.” Therefore, the more we lie, the more the brain

When it comes to the world of sports and entertainment, there have been many athletes accused of using performance enhancement drugs. Tyson Gay ( track and field), Rafael Palmeiro (baseball),Rashid Ramzi (track and field), Manny Ramirez (baseball), Floyd Landis (cycling), Dee Gordon (baseball), Justin Gatlin (track and field) are a few athletes that have been caught taking steroids, but the list goes on and on. As Joe Papp said, “When you have that mindset, or when you think that everybody else is doing it, it makes it a lot easier to consider what you’ve done is legitimate.” When lies about her address she is it because she thought it was the right thing to do in order for her children to receive a good education. In most cases when we lie, we do it because we make ourselves believe that it’s ok to lie if it means it’ll benefit somebody