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deception impacts
deception impacts perception
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Yep.
As nicely summed up in today's column by Leonard Pitts --
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/164...
And as addressed in "On Truth" by Harry Frankfurt (better known maybe for his earlier book, "On Bullshit.")
Frankfurt writes about how finding out that someone you have trusted has lied to you makes you feel "crazy." And this is because you have to be able to rely on your own judgement in evaluating the truth of what's going on in the world around you in order to function. If you turn out to have been wrong in trusting someone, someone bent on being untruthful for their own reasons, you begin to doubt your own abilities to know the truth, and feel "crazy."
A guy lying about a blow job (when we all knew he was lying and had always lied about such things) doesn't make me feel nearly as crazy as a guy lying about his ability to make decisions about war.
Nance