{"id":19574,"date":"2024-04-18T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=19574"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:12:29","slug":"i-could-lie-to-you-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/04\/18\/i-could-lie-to-you-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I Could Lie to You Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You ever thought about how easy it is to lie to someone?<\/span><\/p>\n

…<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, I\u2019m probably getting eyes right now, but I\u2019m being so honest. It\u2019s so easy to lie to someone! In an age where fact checking is a myth because the closest thing to a real answer <\/span>was <\/span><\/i>Google and then it wasn\u2019t, and you could use AI to look something up for you, but really do you want to do that?<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s one big mess. Your social media sites? One big episode of telephone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone said on Tumblr, who got screenshotted to Instagram, who was sent around a bunch of people\u2019s direct messages that you could save someone from an overdose before an ambulance came by pouring them saltwater. And was this correct? No, it was dangerously false, but the post from 2013 where someone read something wrong is now getting posted to Tik Tok and ohh…\u00a0 You just pray to God no one in this scenario is confronted with an overdose.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a horrifying system! Who profits from this!<\/span><\/p>\n

Some videos will just serve you wrong information and what? Will your mother check if NewsOutlet.com is serving her a conspiracy theory baked as a health guide? No, she won\u2019t. It\u2019s just the culture of the internet but now she\u2019s involved in buying purified teeth to loop around her neck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which brings us back to the question: how easy is it to lie to someone?<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, obviously there are boundaries, if you have enough common sense you can tell when I\u2019m lying (but the average American overestimates how easy it is to be manipulated.)<\/span><\/p>\n

You may think I\u2019m telling the truth, but if I\u2019m confident, persuasive, and pretty enough, I can tell you things you would doubt experts on. Humans love to listen to confidence. And coincidentally, if your peer tells you a statistic with full confidence, what\u2019s your chances of actually fact checking that?<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the things you think you know are just another myth. Daylight saving time was started for farmers, putting your phone in rice saves it from dropping in the pool, organic food is more nutritious. And then there\u2019s the even worse ones. MSG is bad for you, vaccines cause autism, a child can\u2019t be reported missing unless 24 hours have passed.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just the beginning!<\/span><\/p>\n

But we\u2019re nearing the end of this blog, so let me make the point I was going to make at the beginning. (This one is in bold because it\u2019s the one you\u2019re probably actually gonna read.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of the five of these, four are real crimes. One is a lie. Without looking it up, which one is LEGAL?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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  1. \n

    spitting at someone<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n

    corporal punishment (Physical Punishment)<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n

    not having car insurance<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n

    Impersonating someone online<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n

    downloading someone else\u2019s content<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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