My UNACCEPTABLE would have an exemption clause for such lies, I think. I mean, we have to tell ourselves those lies to make sense of stuff all the time - we 'believe' all sorts of things because they are a convenient belief to allow us to think critically about something in the meantime while we wait for the Truth (or a better lie).
I don't even feel too bad about people lying to themselves when they know it's reasonable self-deception, so long as nobody gets hurt. If I ever think about it for too long I come to the conclusion that governments lie to their people and individuals in them run them (in part at least) for the good of a limited few at the top of society and that there's very little I can do about it.
Generally that makes me quite depressed and so I'm happy to quickly think that actually they're probably doing the best thing by the people and it's all really alright. I emotionally accept the lie, even though the rational truth seems to point in a different direction. Not much better than believing in deities to give your life more meaning and being angry when people try to rationally explain that it is otherwise.
According to the people I know who work with goverment officials, most MPs are actually good people trying to do the right thing. Some of them will also skim cash off for themselves, but very few of them are just in it to pad their pockets.
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andrewducker) wrote2010-12-20 01:51 pm
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Generally that makes me quite depressed and so I'm happy to quickly think that actually they're probably doing the best thing by the people and it's all really alright. I emotionally accept the lie, even though the rational truth seems to point in a different direction. Not much better than believing in deities to give your life more meaning and being angry when people try to rationally explain that it is otherwise.
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