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People lie all the time.

• fn-mote 1mo ago
  When people in power lie, it lowers trust in all society. I don’t want to live in a low-trust society, so I am against lying by CEOs and politicians.
  • pixel_popping 1mo ago
    Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that people lie in general. Most people start lying long before they reach any position of power and in many cases, lying is exaclyt how they got there. That's what makes it hard to fix: by the time someone is in power, the behavior has already been rewarded and is already doing a snowball effect. I'm not defending it (especially in Politics, it shouldn't be legal), just acknowledging reality that people lie about tiny things, so of course they lie about big things. It's more of a people problem, not only a people-in-power problem. In practice, I doubt that they have a way out of all the lie-parade as well while being able to maintain their position, imagine if today any politician/CEO suddenly acknowledge "oh sorry guys, all that time we were just lying" => Career death (with snowball effect)
    • alexashka 1mo ago
      If only someone had written by many considered the greatest philosophical text about it, freely available online at project Gutenberg :) They call it The Republic.
      • watwut 1mo ago
        Its recommendations are kind of fascist-like tho. We are trying to avoid that here right now.