BLOGPOST #8: "IT'S IN OUR NATURE"

Do you believe that tooth fairies, Santa Claus, and Easter Bunny exists? Because when I was young I believe in them but now,not anymore. My parents made me believe that there's this kind of things. But why? Why people lie to make things less daunting?

I read an article entitled "Scholars Say It`s True: Lying Is Part Of Human Nature" by Jon Van in the site www.chicagotribune.com, which states that scholars believed lying and the human capacity for self-deception is the thing that separates human beings from other animals. It's not our ability to reason or use tools, but our ability to tell lies. 


Robert Sussman, an anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said that the appearance in the fossil record of burials, burial goods and, later, cave art are the first evidence of the ability of humans to deceive themselves and to create culturally determined perceptions of nature.

He said that deception is socially adaptive for humans. It's almost a necessity for human beings to perceive the world. Loyal D. Rue, a professor of religion and philosophy at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, supported this statement."The 'lies' we see in nature and culture are life-support systems," Rue said. "We can't survive without them. Deception is a strategy that we use to save ourselves from social and psychological chaos." Lying has been in our everyday lives. We even ask someone if how they're doing just out of respect when we don't even really mean it. Even in simple things, we lie but we don't consider it as bad. We lie in order to socialize with everybody.

In addition to that, I read an article entitled "Lies a Part of Human Nature" by Chris Cotter in the site www.headsupenglish.com, which states that lies are an indivisible part of human nature.

From the past, our parents lied to us about Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy. We lied in order to avoid hurting another's feelings. We lie to ourselves to make our present situations less daunting. Psychologist Paul Ekman said, "We lie to escape punishment, to elude uncomfortable social situations, to give ourselves an ego boost, to receive a reward, to protect someone, or to control the flow of information." We call this white lies. We lie for our own good and sometimes, white lies isn't considered as bad since we do it for good tings.

In the end, lying is literally part our nature. Lies, some experts argue, are the glue which holds society together. It's the bond that makes us socially acceptable.