READING WATCHMEN

I never liked superhero movies or anything and I still don't but we had to read this book for our class and I'm not going to lie I was not really excited about it. But I started to read it and I did not understand what I was reading so I decided to watch the movie first. The movie was like 3 hours long!! But I still watched it and I actually liked it. But now it was time to read to book because we were told there some things that are different in the book and the movie. But know that I knew more about the movie and the characters it was so much easy to read the book. At the end I really liked it, it was interesting and the story was really good. I'm not saying I like superheros now but I sure like the Watchmen.

Pathological lying

When the lie is often used is a risk that it becomes a habit. The more you lie more difficult it becomes to leave the immediate benefit that gives the lie and, at the same time, it is almost impossible to control all the misinformation that has been passed and thus maintain a certain consistency. Thus mistrust, suspicion and doubt occurs in people living near who lies, which ends up affecting your personal relationships in all areas of your life, family, work, social, etc. Despite these consequences some people still feel the compulsive urge to lie with a certain regularity, not a particular secondary benefit, but in order to create a new reality. These cases are those who are called compulsive liars. The pathological liar usually begins with 'small' lies, and slowly feeling that you are no longer valid, feel the need to 'enlarge' them is adding new ingredients to make them more important and thus give value to yourself. In this way, slowly, it is entering a dangerous process, which does not recognize and therefore does not try to solve, because you're looking to build a new reality, he uses lies on a daily basis, and does not take into account the consequences that may result. The best antidote against lying is acceptance. When one accepts this as it is, play fair with himself, recognize his strengths and weaknesses, and is able to drawn a personal improvement plan, you do not need to make use of lies that give value to others.

Lying in children

The value of the lies is not the same when it comes to adults or when those who lie are children. The latter have not completed their physical and psychological development, and therefore does not have the same level of adult people ethical judgment. Besides fantasy is an ingredient of development and this means that the illusions are not cataloged just like a lie. Still, when a child lies a lot there to make him see the reality, confront him with his lies , assess the fallout for him and others, and make sure that lying is not good through ethics training.

Why we lie

  

We all lie, all the time. It causes problems, to say the least. So why do we do it? It boils down to the shifting sands of the self and trying to look good both to ourselves and others, experts say. "It's tied in with self-esteem," says University of Massachusetts psychologist Robert Feldman. "We find that as soon as people feel that their self-esteem is threatened, they immediately begin to lie at higher levels." Not all lies are harmful. In fact, sometimes lying is the best approach for protecting privacy and ourselves and others from malice, some researchers say. Some deception, such as boasting and lies in the name of tact and politeness, can be classified as less than serious. But bald-faced lies (whether they involve leaving out the truth or putting in something false), are harmful, as they corrode trust and intimacy -the glue of society.

Self Deception

Self-deception is rampant in human affairs.  And although too much self-deception is probably a bad thing, a little self-deception may be just what a person needs to get through the day.   One should never underestimate the power of positive illusions.  For example, psychological studies show that people who are overly optimistic about their own abilities often have enhanced motivation, which enables them to do better in the face of challenges than people with more realistic assessments of their own talents.  Of course, it may be that for every one person who benefits from self-deception, there are scads who are burned by it. Think of the pathological gambler who goes bankrupt betting on a “sure thing” or a battered wife who keeps returning to her abuser, confident that he won’t do again. Or think of the mass self-deception that causes the American electorate to believe we can have lower taxes, more government services, and a balanced budget all at the same time.Clearly,  people subject to this sort of self-deception run a real risk of ruin.

 Self-deception is rampant in human affairs.  And although too much self-deception is probably a bad thing, a little self-deception may be just what a person needs to get through the day.   One should never underestimate the power of positive illusions.  For example, psychological studies show that people who are overly optimistic about their own abilities often have enhanced motivation, which enables them to do better in the face of challenges than people with more realistic assessments of their own talents.
Of course, it may be that for every one person who benefits from self-deception, there are scads who are burned by it.  Think of the pathological gambler who goes bankrupt betting on a “sure thing” or a battered wife who keeps returning to her abuser, confident that he won’t do again. Or think of the mass self-deception that causes the American electorate to believe we can have lower taxes, more government services, and a balanced budget all at the same time.   Clearly,  people subject to this sort of self-deception run a real risk of ruin.
- See more at: http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/blog/ken-taylor/2015/04/self-deception#sthash.vIn27TJW.dpuf

 Self-deception is rampant in human affairs.  And although too much self-deception is probably a bad thing, a little self-deception may be just what a person needs to get through the day.   One should never underestimate the power of positive illusions.  For example, psychological studies show that people who are overly optimistic about their own abilities often have enhanced motivation, which enables them to do better in the face of challenges than people with more realistic assessments of their own talents.
Of course, it may be that for every one person who benefits from self-deception, there are scads who are burned by it.  Think of the pathological gambler who goes bankrupt betting on a “sure thing” or a battered wife who keeps returning to her abuser, confident that he won’t do again. Or think of the mass self-deception that causes the American electorate to believe we can have lower taxes, more government services, and a balanced budget all at the same time.   Clearly,  people subject to this sort of self-deception run a real risk of ruin.
- See more at: http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/blog/ken-taylor/2015/04/self-deception#sthash.vIn27TJW.dpuf

 Self-deception is rampant in human affairs.  And although too much self-deception is probably a bad thing, a little self-deception may be just what a person needs to get through the day.   One should never underestimate the power of positive illusions.  For example, psychological studies show that people who are overly optimistic about their own abilities often have enhanced motivation, which enables them to do better in the face of challenges than people with more realistic assessments of their own talents.
Of course, it may be that for every one person who benefits from self-deception, there are scads who are burned by it.  Think of the pathological gambler who goes bankrupt betting on a “sure thing” or a battered wife who keeps returning to her abuser, confident that he won’t do again. Or think of the mass self-deception that causes the American electorate to believe we can have lower taxes, more government services, and a balanced budget all at the same time.   Clearly,  people subject to this sort of self-deception run a real risk of ruin.
- See more at: http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/blog/ken-taylor/2015/04/self-deception#sthash.vIn27TJW.dpuf

 Self-deception is rampant in human affairs.  And although too much self-deception is probably a bad thing, a little self-deception may be just what a person needs to get through the day.   One should never underestimate the power of positive illusions.  For example, psychological studies show that people who are overly optimistic about their own abilities often have enhanced motivation, which enables them to do better in the face of challenges than people with more realistic assessments of their own talents.
Of course, it may be that for every one person who benefits from self-deception, there are scads who are burned by it.  Think of the pathological gambler who goes bankrupt betting on a “sure thing” or a battered wife who keeps returning to her abuser, confident that he won’t do again. Or think of the mass self-deception that causes the American electorate to believe we can have lower taxes, more government services, and a balanced budget all at the same time.   Clearly,  people subject to this sort of self-deception run a real risk of ruin.
- See more at: http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/blog/ken-taylor/2015/04/self-deception#sthash.vIn27TJW.dpuf

 Self-deception is rampant in human affairs.  And although too much self-deception is probably a bad thing, a little self-deception may be just what a person needs to get through the day.   One should never underestimate the power of positive illusions.  For example, psychological studies show that people who are overly optimistic about their own abilities often have enhanced motivation, which enables them to do better in the face of challenges than people with more realistic assessments of their own talents.
Of course, it may be that for every one person who benefits from self-deception, there are scads who are burned by it.  Think of the pathological gambler who goes bankrupt betting on a “sure thing” or a battered wife who keeps returning to her abuser, confident that he won’t do again. Or think of the mass self-deception that causes the American electorate to believe we can have lower taxes, more government services, and a balanced budget all at the same time.   Clearly,  people subject to this sort of self-deception run a real risk of ruin.
- See more at: http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/blog/ken-taylor/2015/04/self-deception#sthash.vIn27TJW.dpuf

 Self-deception is rampant in human affairs.  And although too much self-deception is probably a bad thing, a little self-deception may be just what a person needs to get through the day.   One should never underestimate the power of positive illusions.  For example, psychological studies show that people who are overly optimistic about their own abilities often have enhanced motivation, which enables them to do better in the face of challenges than people with more realistic assessments of their own talents.
Of course, it may be that for every one person who benefits from self-deception, there are scads who are burned by it.  Think of the pathological gambler who goes bankrupt betting on a “sure thing” or a battered wife who keeps returning to her abuser, confident that he won’t do again. Or think of the mass self-deception that causes the American electorate to believe we can have lower taxes, more government services, and a balanced budget all at the same time.   Clearly,  people subject to this sort of self-deception run a real risk of ruin.
- See more at: http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/blog/ken-taylor/2015/04/self-deception#sthash.vIn27TJW.dpuf