Lying

Well, I just wanted to discuss a bit, lying, as we currently know it.
This might not be the best location to discuss this issue, but
for now, I'm going with --- why not ? ---

To begin,  if 1% of the global population lies, at any given time, , that would
be about 70,000,000 at any given time.  It could be less maybe as little as
7,000,000 ... but let's start with the bigger number.  So if we have
70,000,000 potential lies at any given time, that might mean, 7,000,000
lies on a given day, and you can see that might mean .... 20,000,000
per month for a grand total of 240,000,000 lies  per year.  This number
might fluctuate and so on a good year maybe only 24,000,000 lies
per year and maybe a bad year would include 2,000,000,000 lies, which
seems like a lot.

Now let's say that 50 % of those lies mean nothing, so with our average
we have reduced the number of lies that cause damage, loose money,
and all that to say an average of 100,000,000 per year and that could
add up, because at a minimum of $50 per damaging lie you now have
about $5,000,000,000 per year.  But it could be potentially much worse.

But beyond cost, there is a more destructive effect which is, the confusion
and doubt and uncertainty this creates for the vast majority of the population.

But it needs to be clearly understood that lying is very simply at any given
time the absence of honesty.   My simple point is that however much
social benefit there might be to eliminating lying, there is a much
greater social benefit to encouraging honesty.   This is because honesty
benefits society but much more it benefits the individual who is
able to master, nurture, and develop that wonderful quality, because
it is the foundation and bedrock for greater achievement.