week five

When Meyer talks about lying is a cooperative act, she means that even if you are being the one lied too, you agree to being lied to. You don't question their lie, you believe its the truth. When she said that lying is a way for us to connect what we wish to be, I believe she means that if I want people to believe that I'm strong, ill tell my buddies that I squat 600 pounds. Id agree that we are against lying but covertly for it. We tell people that we hate when people lie, or we get mad when some lies to us, but, we are all hypocritical.  we will all lie to get ahead, protect, or avoid something or someone. Some of the techniques to spot liars are body behavior and how the person tells the story. I think we should learn the techniques is to spot liars and to kind of replay how we tell lies and see if we do those things too. I think honesty is worth preserving, but to some degree. If we are truthful 100% of the time, there would be so many murders, divorces, and other bad things. You cant have a child lose his/her innocence just because you have to tell her the truth about Santa Claus and the Easter bunny.